Local Service Events Scheduled To Honor Martin Luther King Jr.

The Indianapolis community is invited to participate in this year’s MLK Day of Service events.

Donated food items were accepted over the weekend and will be assembled Monday for Street Outreach Survival Kits at the Kennedy King Park Center, in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park at 601 E. 17th St. The donations will be distributed to needy residents.

Lena Hackett works with the Kennedy King Memorial Initiative and says the project allows people to honor Dr. King’s life and teachings and cultivate community through service to others.

“The most significant thing is about is how folks are defined by what they do for others.  Not what their words are, but what their actions are, and we need to be a community of action again," says Hackett. 

The community is also invited to visit the Landmark for Peace memorial sculpture located within Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

“It was the site where then Sen.Robert Kennedy came thinking he was doing a political speech for his run for  president, instead found he had to inform the hundreds and thousands of folks gathered in that park that Martin Luther King had been assassinated,” says Hackett.

For further information on the Kennedy King Memorial Initiative, visit www.kennedykingindy.org.