No ballroom gathering: MLK event in Maine goes virtual

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The traditional Martin Luther King Day event in Maine’s largest city has gone virtual during the pandemic.

The Portland chapter of the NAACP is holding a daylong schedule of events, all of which can be viewed remotely.

Events include a variety of sessions focusing on racial disparity during the pandemic to the “Unavoidable Impatience” for justice to an online reading of King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Registration is free.