WEST MICHIGAN — Communities across the area are celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day:
Allendale
- Grand Valley State University — Activities from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Allendale campus
Kalamazoo
- March to MLK Park— 3:30 p.m. — meet at the flagpole at Kanley Chapel, WMU
- Martin Luther King Jr’s Community Celebrations — 5 p.m. — Radisson Plaza Hotel
Grand Rapids
- America Sings on MLK Day Concert— 11 a.m. — Kretschmer Recital Hall amphitheater at Aquinas College
- Social Justice March — 3:05 p.m. — starts at Wege Center Mall at Aquinas College
- Blood Drive— 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. — Wege Center Ballroom at Aquinas College
Muskegon
- Soup and Service— 11 a.m. -1 p.m. — Untied Way of the Lakeshore, 31 E. Clay Avenue
- Free Community Day — Muskegon Museum of Art, 96 W. Webster Avenue
Holland
- Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture — 7 p.m. — Dimnent Memorial Chapel, 277 College Avenue