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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bates College urges renewed focus on racial justice


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Thirty years after Bates College decided to devote Martin Luther King Jr. Day to issues of racial justice instead of its ordinary class schedule, it held what its president called the college’s “first-ever, and hopefully last, fully remote” celebration to reach students scattered across the world by a raging pandemic.
President Clayton Spencer kicked off a daylong series of speeches, seminars, debates, podcasts, dances and more Monday with a call for the college community “to reflect consciously and intensively on what we owe our students and what we owe the world.”
With classes not set to resume until next month, Bates students and faculty relied on Zoom to hear historian and activist Angela Davis offer her thoughts on a range of issues to begin a day chock full of calls to action. ....

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