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MLK DAY 2026

This year's theme: Love, anger and the struggle for justice

Bates College
By Bates College
January 29th, 2026
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Produced by Bates Communications and Marketing with photography by Phyllis Graber Jensen, Theophil Syslo, and Carly Philpott '27 and text by Aly DeMarco, Meredith McCarroll, Mary Pols, and Ramona McNisih '28

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