{"id":247,"date":"2015-10-01T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:20:36","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/past-observances\/martin-luther-king-jr-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Jelani Cobb offers the Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote address at Bates on Jan. 18, 2016. (Peter Morenus\/University of Connecticut)<\/p><\/div>\n

Join us<\/strong> at Bates College on Jan. 18, 2016<\/span><\/span>, as we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day with programming that features a keynote address by William Jelani Cobb, staff writer for The New Yorker<\/em> and director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

The theme for 2016 MLK Day programming at Bates is “Mass Incarceration and Black Citizenship.”<\/p>\n

As always, Bates’ MLK Day observance comprises a wealth of thoughtful and thought-provoking activities. In addition to two sessions of concurrent workshops, these include such popular annual events as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Service on Sunday evening, Jan. 17; the Monday afternoon debate featuring debaters \u00a0from Morehouse College and Bates; and Monday evening’s performance by Sankofa.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Professor of Sociology Michael Rocque and colleague Chris Petrella \u201906, a First-Year Seminar lecturer at Bates, comment on the 2016 Bates MLK Day theme, “Mass Incarceration and Black Citizenship.”<\/h6>\n