Slideshow: 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance
Assistant Men's Lacrosse Coach Bill Mason listens as a Martel School 4th-grader reads about the Civil Rights Movement during the annual MLK Day Read-In on Jan. 22. Bates faculty, staff and students participated. (Sarah Crosby/Bates College)
Sankofa wows its audience members, including President Clayton Spencer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Sankofa co-directors Bethel Kifle '14 and Jourdan Fanning '14 take their bows at the end of the performance. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Jalen Baker '16 presents "Letter to Daddy" during the 2014 Sankofa production titled "H.O.M.E. (Honoring Our Motherland Eternally)." (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Christopher Petrella '05, a doctoral candidate in African American studies at UC Berkeley, discusses the topic of his dissertation and focus of his activism, "The Color of Corporate Corrections: Global Capital, Black Diaspora and the Rise of the Private Prison State." (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Images from the observance at Bates: Sunday’s memorial service; the keynote address on the history of King’s “Dream” speech and a personal reminiscence from U.S. Sen. Angus King; the Benjamin Mays Debate between Bates and Morehouse; and workshops in the afternoon followed by the evening arts performance by Sankofa. Photographs by Sarah Crosby and Phyllis Graber Jensen.
