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In a service full of hopeful songs and encouraging words, St. John's Missionary Baptist Church kept the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. alive Monday with its annual MLK Youth Program. The program opened with a few words of welcome from the Rev. Allen Smith followed by the singing of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." A big theme of the day was about King's dream to unite people from different backgrounds in the United States to make it better and to move forward by loving those people. The first speaker was a Kansas Wesleyan University student, D'Andre Childress, who told the story of his life, ab...

The Delaware County Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee and Ohio Wesleyan University invite members of the community to learn how to better promot

MLK Oratorical Contest set for virtual event Jan. 27 The Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Contest will provide five students an opportunity to discuss what they believe King would view as today's most pressing social justice issue. The 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Contest will give five students a chance to discuss what they believe King would see as today's most important social justice issues and how to address them. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will be held virtually via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 27. Students, faculty and staff can register for the free event in U...

A new initiative called Safety Engaging in Expression Delegates will see students, faculty and staff mediating between off-campus groups and students.  

For Subscribers Bill Nemitz: When immigrants like him come knocking, he’ll be waiting at Maine’s door Reza Jalali, the new head of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, is the right person at the right time for a crucial job. Share To fully appreciate the new job Reza Jalali starts next week, you need to go back to the very beginning. It was 1985. Jalali, a Kurdish refugee from Iran, had just arrived in Maine from India, where he’d gone to attend college and, with the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the subsequent war with Iraq, he could no longer return home.