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More than 20 Long Island Jewish Valley Stream employees volunteered at the Mary Brennan INN on Jan. 10.

LIJ Valley Stream remembers Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifty years ago, a cook at North Shore University Hospital, told his supervisor that if the administration wasn’t planning to commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, … more

By Melissa Koenig | 1/23/19

Jacob Hurney, left, Luke Santeramo, Martin Luther King Center board Chairman James Hodge, and Andrea Wilkins, far right, handed a turkey and a bag of traditional Thanksgiving dinner trimmings to Long Beach resident Milagro Rodriguez on Tuesday.

MLK Center hosts annual Thanksgiving dinner

Long Beach residents filed in to the Martin Luther King Center on Tuesday to collect turkeys and traditional Thanksgiving dinner trimmings before a large community gathering at the center. … more

By Bridget Downes | 11/21/18

Members of the Martin Luther King Center gathered with District Attorney Madeline Singas on Feb. 14 for a ribbon cutting of the center’s newly upgraded computer lab.

MLK Center upgrades its computer lab

Martin Luther King Center board members were joined by Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky and representatives from Altice USA — one of the largest broadband … more

3/16/18

Before Black History Month wrapped up this week, Kamiah Chambers showed off her tribute to Rosa Parks during a celebration at Rockville Center’s Martin Luther King Jr. Center on Feb. 24.

Celebrating black history at Rockville Centre's MLK Center

Members of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center on North Centre Avenue gathered to celebrate Black History Month on Feb. 24, as the center’s youth displayed their many talents during the ceremony. more

By Ben Strack | 3/1/18

This photo and caption appeared on the front page of the Long Island News and the Owl in March 1968.

50 years later, locals recall Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Rockville Centre

“When we heard him speak, we were overwhelmed,” said John Simpkins Jr., recalling the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Long Beach and Rockville Centre in 1968. more

By Ben Strack | 3/1/18

Brianha, center, and Danielle, both 13, shared a laugh as they sewed their pillows.

Honoring the contributions of black whalers at the Oceanside Library

“Whaling was one of the first racially integrated industries in the United States,” Nia Adams from the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum told a small group of elementary and middle schoolers at … more

By Peter Belfiore | 2/6/18

John Dinkelmeyer Elementary School fourth-graders Bella Wunner, left, Lucas Paingankar, Jordyn Dioguardi and Jack Weber completed response sheets after reading about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dinkelmeyer students inspired by Dr. King's message

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contributions to the civil rights movement were the subject of several reading and writing assignments at John Dinkelmeyer Elementary School in the North Bellmore School District. more

2/1/18

The Rev. Cornell Williams Brooks, former president and CEO of the NAACP, delivered the sermon.

Valley Streamers keep Martin Luther King’s dream alive

It was an emotional celebration that paid respect and homage to one of the nation’s most powerful figures, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at the Valley Stream Presbyterian Church on Jan. 15. Adults … more

1/24/18

Anthony Teets, choir director of Hood AME Zion Church, accompanied and joined in singing a hymn with, from left, Sandra Rogers, Woody Vann, Viola Carter and Jay Green at Christ Church.

O.B. pastor: ‘It’s like Dr. King died for nothing,' focusing sermon on remarks made by Trump

The setting for Oyster Bay’s Martin Luther King Day has traditionally been Christ Church, where there is an interdenominational service the Sunday before his birthday involving the episcopal … more

By Laura Lane | 1/19/18

Martin Luther King Center Board Chairman James Hodge unveiled MLK Way, the renamed intersection of East Pine Street and Riverside Boulevard, outside the center, after hundreds of people marched along West Park Avenue to show solidarity with Dr. King’s ideals on Monday.

Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

In a ceremony attended by hundreds on Monday, the City of Long Beach renamed the intersection of East Pine Street and Riverside Boulevard — where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once walked — … more

By Bridget Downes | 1/18/18

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