Media cover annual MLK Day Breakfast Celebration
The Bangor Daily News, WVII (Channel 7), WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Celebration held at the University of Maine. The breakfast, which was sponsored by the Greater Bangor NAACP and UMaine, featured music and a keynote address by Alison Beyea, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine. More than 250 people attended the event at Wells Conference Center, according to the BDN. “We have reasons for continued optimism, and we have equally strong reasons for concern,” said Michael Alpert, president of the Bangor NAACP chapter and director of the University of Maine Press. The BDN also spoke with Alpert ahead of the Monday event for the article, “Bangor NAACP leader has plans to restore organization’s status.” During the event, Antonia Carroll, a fourth-year chemistry and international affairs double major at UMaine, received the Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize for her poem, “Still stirring,” media reported. “We have to remember that this is a long process and it’s not over,” Carroll told WABI. “And the events that are happening now — the events that are happen in this country every day, in our own schools every day — these are things that are not slowing down, and we need to address them. Because if we don’t address them then we’re going to be having this conversation again in 100 years from now, 200 years from now, and that’s just not acceptable.”