Voices from MLK Day: 'We are finished sitting quietly, insisting on the possibility of change' | News

Five speakers on MLK Day at Bates, Maine-based thinkers, practitioners, and activists, offered personal narratives and insights that vividly captured the day's theme, "What I Mean When I Say: Decolonization and Liberation."

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