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Windows, which Pat Morris, director of Rockville Centre's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, said were damaged by bullets, could be fixed with funding se aside by State Sen. Todd Kaminsky.
MLK Center could receive $100,000 for improvements
“The new windows [will] put that where it needs to go,” said Pat Morris, director of Rockville Centre’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, as he motioned to a classroom window cracked by what he said were bullet holes. “On the back burners in the past.” more
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Imani Northington played with her friends near the shuffleboard table after school. The community center’s directors see it as a place where parents can rest assured their children are in a safe, supervised space while they are at work.
A place where ‘can’t’ is not a word
“I can’t do it,” said one of the dance students as she struggled to learn a new routine. “What is that? ‘I can’t’,” her instructor Tjuana Evans shot back. “There’s no such … more
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This is the second year the dancers have performed at a Molloy halftime show. They were invited back after being well received the first time according to coach Tijuana Evans.
MLK Center dancers perform at Molloy halftime
The Dance Empress Studios dancers returned to the court to perform a halftime show for the Molloy men’s basketball team on Saturday. Based out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in … more
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Long Beach High School student and 2016 national wrestling champion Jacori Teemer served as this year’s grand marshal in the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemorative March and Celebration on Monday. He is considered one of the most accomplished high school wrestlers in Long Island history, and was the 132-pound champion in the Eastern States Classic final last Saturday.
Marching in his memory
City officials and Long Beach residents alike marched along West Park Avenue on Monday to commemorate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Before the annual march — which first started … more
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Sekona Dixon, front, and Maurice Reid showed off some self-defense karate moves.
MLK Day celebrated at Center
“Okay, one, two, three, dream!” said the photographer as he snapped a shot of the children lined up at the head of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center on Jan. 16. This was the … more
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Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth launched the web site on Jan. 17.
Synagogue's new web site honored MLK legacy
As a way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre launched a new web site on Jan. 17 that denounced hatred and prejudice. The debut of the … more
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Jan. 12 — 18
Friday flicks The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will screen “The Guilt Trip” on Jan. 13 at 1 p.m. The movie stars Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogan and Joleen Renee, and follows an inventor … more
On Black Lives Matter, let’s opine less, listen more
The Black Lives Matter movement continues to be hotly debated, as it has been since its inception. Many of its detractors criticize its use of protests, its language, its focus on black lives and their relationship to the rest of society, even . . . more
African-American history is more than a month
Moneta Sleet Jr. took one of the most famous photographs in American history, of a black-veiled, grief-stricken Coretta Scott King at the funeral of her slain husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. . . . more
Hundreds participated in the MLK Center’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative march on Park Avenue on Monday. The parade route closely follows the one King took when he visited Long Beach in 1968. Photos by Kristie Arden/Herald
MLK Center ceremony celebrates many ‘firsts’
Less than a year ago, Anissa Moore was preparing for spring break, ready to hop on a JetBlue flight to take her far from Nassau Community College, where she has been a communications professor for … more
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