Valley leaders remember MLK
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
That’s a remark the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posed to an audience in Montgomery, Ala., in 1957.
King, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, spent his adult life as leader of the civil rights movement advocating for equal rights and treatment for all people and preaching the use for peace and love for fellow humans and nonviolence as conduits of change.
The third Monday of each January serves as a day to reflect on King’s legacy, teachings and messages and what he did for others.
McKeesport NAACP Unit President Brenda Sawyer said the holiday is meant to be observed as “a day of service,” marked with service projects, peaceful demonstrations, remembrance ceremonies and events designed to promote and educate about the ideas and causes for which King advocated.
“With it being a day of service, that’s the best way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” Sawyer said, adding that doing service projects in one’s community is a rewarding experience.
Many events and celebrations have been moved online this year due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions and precautions.
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