Boro set for MLK Day celebration

Prayer breakfast, parade to be featured

Akoria Cone, 7, seeks shelter from the chilly weather with grandfather Samuel Watkins, pastor of the Body of Christ Assembly, Inc. during the 2016 Statesboro Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade. The 2018 parade is set for Monday.

W MLK PARADE File photo — Akoria Cone, 7, seeks shelter from the chilly weather with grandfather Samuel Watkins, pastor of the Body of Christ Assembly, Inc. during the 2016 Statesboro Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade. The 2018 parade is set for Monday.

The president of Bulloch County’s NAACP chapter hopes people of all races participate and enjoy what she called a “community celebration” planned to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. King, a Baptist minister and civil rights activist from Atlanta, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and after he was assassinated by James Earl Ray in 1968, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and Medal of Freedom. He is known for his efforts toward peace and unity.

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