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Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Atlanta in 1960. (AP Photo)
Local activist group Justice Matters will host a free virtual event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day aimed at bringing light to injustices in the community and how they can be combated.
Deacon Godsey, the co-president of Justice Matters, said the group hosted a series of listening sessions in the fall of 2020 where hundreds of community members gathered in Zoom meetings to talk about what issues and injustices they see in the Lawrence community. The Justice Matters event will discuss three of those injustices and provide evidence-based solutions.
The Zoom will cover the topics of homelessness, “racial disparities in discipline within Lawrence Public Schools” and “contributing to mass incarceration by misuse of the jail,” a press release stated. There will be three featured speakers during the event: Edith Guffey, conference minister for the United Church of Christ Kansas-Oklahoma Conference; Julia Orlando, direc