Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2021 MLK Tucson events, January 15 to 18

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Due to the pandemic, the annual MLK March & Rally at Reid Park is cancelled for Monday, but here’s a number of MLK events starting January 15, to the holiday on Monday, January 18. Two of the Jan. 18 events are also on our Calendar. The Loft Cinema at 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. is also … Read more

MLK Civil rights film “Selma” at the Loft

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RESENTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SELMA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 AT 7:00PM | REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES at The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson “See the Oscar-winning 2014 drama Selma, followed by an onstage discussion with journalist and author Diane McWhorter, whose acclaimed book “Carry Me Home,” an account of the civil rights revolution in … Read more

New location for Martin Luther King Day March & Rally

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The MLK March and Celebration will take place on Monday,  January 19 at 9 a.m.   Participants will march from Santa Rita Park, 401 E. 22nd Street (corner of N. 4th Avenue)  to Armory Park, 221 S. 6th Ave (NE corner of E. 13th Street), Tucson, AZ.  There will be a rally and program starting at 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Armory Park, across from the Tucson Children’s Museum. 

 (Previous years this march on the MLK Holiday  started at the UA Mall and marched to Reid Park). 

More about civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was assassinated in 1968: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

The MLK Holiday is on February 19, go to our Blog for Arizona Calendar for more events for that day including a Freedom Song  Singalong at 3 p.m. and free Black American history  film “Through a Lens Darkly”  at the Loft Theater at 5 p.m.

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