02.21.2024 Community Long Island student artists create to celebrate Black History Month Through paint and chalk and pencil and ink, East End Arts’ fourth annual MLK Portrait Project takes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. statements to heart — but instead of...
01.16.2023 Community On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Riverhead pastor issues call to action The Rev. Charles Coverdale, longtime pastor of First Baptist Church of Riverhead, has seen devotion to celebrating the remarkable life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. evolve...
01.04.2023 Community Community service expo planned for Saturday ahead of MLK National Day of Service The Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force will host its first ever community service expo at Riverhead Free Library on Saturday Jan. 7. The organization’s goal with the expo is to...
01.19.2021 News First Baptist Church of Riverhead celebrates MLK by honoring local groups In the wake of a taxing year marked by social unrest, economic suffering, the COVID-19 pandemic, a divisive election and recent attack on the nation’s Capitol, speakers during the...
01.18.2021 Community Students team up for East End Arts’ MLK Portrait Project Students from across the East End collaborated for East End Arts’ MLK Portrait Project in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Four different portraits, each containing 16 panels,...
06.14.2020 Editorials Editorial: This struggle will also be waged in our town On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others were arrested in Birmingham, Ala., on charges that their peaceful demonstration against police brutality and segregation violated a...
01.20.2020 Community ‘With MLK in mind — stay informed, stay active, and call out injustice when you see it’ The East End Voter Coalition held its 19th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. event Sunday at the Riverhead Free Library. Leslie Anderson of Riverhead, the deputy bureau...
04.04.2018 Community MLK had been invited to Riverhead weeks before his death Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated 50 years ago today, the Riverhead chapter of the NAACP invited him to be a guest speaker at its “annual observance of Freedom.”