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What MLK Day is All About

January 21, 2016

Communications Staff

A girl and a young woman paint a baseboard together.

Photo credit: Beth Blissman

Tessa Newson, a 7th-grade student at Langston Middle School, and Eleanor VanBuren, a third-year comparative literature major, paint the community room at ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Community Services as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day. β€œHands on activity: It’s what MLK Day is all about,” VanBuren says of the experience. According to Bonner Center for Service and Learning Director Beth Blissman, roughly 25 college students, ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ city school students, and community members participated in the volunteer work.

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