Local activities planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

A series of activities are planned for Friday and Monday in Havre to mark the birthday and commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

The events will be hosted by Montana State University-Northern’s Office of Diversity Awareness and Multicultural Programs, MSU-N Student Activities, the Montana State University Compact and AmeriCorps VISTA.

Christina Estrada Underwood, director of the multicultural programs, said that even decades after his death the ideals of racial harmony and nonviolence King espoused remain just as important today as they were nearly five decades ago.

“We need to reme...