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The work continues.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
from - Letter from Birmingham Jail - April 16, 1963
"Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."
Photo Credit : Bettmann Archive
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day - here’s an excellent and timely Bill Bramhall comic. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/editorialcartoons/billbramhall/s-3984139
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Peace, Justice, and Equality. Have a Meaningful Martin Luther King Jr. Day. #mlk #martinlutherkingjr #martinlutherking #martinlutherkingjrday #holiday #civilrights #equalrights #peace #justice #equality #solidarity #marches #marching #peacefuldemonstration #demonstration
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𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 #MartinLutherKingJrDay 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 – 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴.
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City of Raleigh Government Event Guide Monday January 19th Edition
Residents across the Triangle are invited to recognize, reflect, and engage on Monday, January 19, 2026, as the City of Raleigh observes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with official closures and a community celebration honoring Dr. King’s legacy of service, justice, and unity.
Below is your guide to City of Raleigh government observances and public events happening this Monday.
🏛️ Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday (City Holiday)
Monday, January 19, 2026
Category: Holidays | City of Raleigh Government
The City of Raleigh officially observes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring the life and legacy of Dr. King. Most city offices and services will be closed in observance of the holiday. Residents are encouraged to use the day as a time for reflection, community service, and civic engagement.
🔎 Tip: Check individual department pages for service impacts, closures, and adjusted schedules.
🌳 John Chavis Memorial Park Presents:
King Day — A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time: 12:00 PM
Day: Monday
Hosted by: Parks, Recreation, and Athletics
Location: John Chavis Memorial Park
Category: Community Event | Other
Join the community at John Chavis Memorial Park for a special King Day celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This event brings residents together through reflection, remembrance, and community connection in one of Raleigh’s most historic parks.
Expect a meaningful gathering centered on Dr. King’s message of unity, equity, and collective action.
Why This Day Matters in Raleigh
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is more than a federal holiday — it’s a moment for Raleigh residents to come together, reflect on progress made, and recommit to building a more just and inclusive community. From official city observances to neighborhood celebrations, the day reflects Raleigh’s ongoing dedication to civic engagement and community values.
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On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, from The Glen Pearcy Collection at the Library of Congress. A rare, unguarded public moment of Dr. King smiling at a March 1965 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee meeting—a snapshot of joy amid a historic civil rights struggle-is a highlight.
Images: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at SNCC rally at Beulah Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, March 16, 1965.
Photographed by Glen Pearcy.
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“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come.”…
Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting ran on PBS (and the CBC) from 1983 to 1994. Reruns continue around the world, including the non-commercial digital subchannel network Create and the streaming service Hulu. As part of its launch of Twitch Creative, Twitch streamed every episode over a nine-day period starting on October 29, 2015 – what would have been Ross’s 73rd birthday– and scored 5.6 million viewers. So they created a weekly rebroadcast of all 31 seasons of The Joy of Painting to air, with episodes in order, on Twitch each Monday from November 2015 onward, and a marathon of episodes each October 29. In the United Kingdom, the BBC re-ran episodes during the COVID-19 pandemic while most viewers were in lockdown at home.
Ross is estimated to have pained 30,000 canvases during his lifetime. But as those paintings are scarce on the art market, sale prices of the paintings average in the thousands of dollars and frequently topping $10,000. Lately, they’ve done even better– and for an important cause.
Starting last November, auction house Bonhams has been offering what will be a total of 30 Ross oils to benefit the public broadcasting system that made him famous…
Bob Ross’s Babbling Brook (1993)Bonhams has revealed the next works by the beloved US television painter Bob Ross it will offer for sale, with auction proceeds going toward public television following devastating funding cuts by president Donald Trump’s administration. More than $1bn in federal funding previously allocated to support public broadcasters was slashed by the Republican-controlled congress last year.
Last year, Bonhams announced it would sell 30 Ross paintings donated by Bob Ross Inc to benefit public television. The first three paintings from the group went up for sale in November and fetched a combined total of $662,000 with fees. Ross’s painting Winter’s Peace (1993) sold for $318,000 with fees, setting an auction record for the artist. Just weeks later, that record was shattered again when his painting Cabin at Sunset (1987) sold for more than $1m in an online charity auction for the Public Media Bridge Fund initiative [see here], organised by the television host John Oliver. [One more reason to love John Oliver.]
Three more Ross paintings will be part of the “Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History & Legacy” auction on 27 January at Bonhams in Massachusetts, and could fetch as much as $155,000 collectively, according to the auction house’s estimates.
Valley View (1990) is estimated to sell for between $30,000 and $50,000, and was the first work completed for the 21st volume of Ross’s Joy of Painting instructional book. Change of Seasons (1990) comes with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, and was completed live on air in 1990, on the 11th episode of the 20th season of his The Joy of Painting television series. In that episode, Ross describes the scene as “just a beautiful little painting”.
Babbling Brook (1993), a unique oval-shaped painting, is estimated to fetch between $25,000 and $45,000. It was completed during filming for the first episode of the 30th season of The Joy of Painting. Ross often let the subject in his landscapes develop as he went along, encouraging viewers to add spontaneous details as they saw fit. While painting Babbling Brook, Ross said, “I see something!” and painted in a waterfall, adding: “Let your imagination take you to any world that you want to go to.”
An additional 24 Ross works will be sold throughout this year across Bonhams salesrooms in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, the auction house says…
Giving back: “More Bob Ross paintings head to auction to benefit US public television” from @theartnewspaper.bsky.social.
* Bob Ross
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As we “don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents,” we might note that Ross’ rough contemporary and fellow “popular” painter, Thomas Kinkade was born on this date in 1958. While Ross was concerned with communicating the joy of creating and was opposed to his paintings becoming “financial instruments,” Kinkade was focused on capitalizing on his creations.
Kinkade, who described himself as a “master of light” (putting himself in the company of Rembrandt and Caravaggio), achieved success during his lifetime via the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products through the Thomas Kinkade Company (according to which, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings).
Ross died in 1995 of complications from lymphoma (which he’d had for several years). KInkade died in 2012 of acute intoxication from alcohol and diazepam.
Thomas Kinkade “Bambi’s First Year” (source)“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that”
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day
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In our home, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day for an entire week. #martinlutherkingjr #martinlutherking #mlk #martinlutherkingday #martinlutherkingjrday #holiday #winterholiday #civilrights #civilrightsleader #americanhero #heritage #americanhistory #americanheritage
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My 12 day fever explains it, it seems I forgot to wish everyone a lovely #MartinLutherKingJrDay! 🥳❤
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
#mlkday #martinlutherkingjrday #mlk #martinlutherkingjr #martinlutherking #wisewords #wordsofwisdom #quoteoftheday
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...There is something in this universe which justifies Carlyle in saying:
'No lie can live forever.'
There is something in this universe which justifies William Cullen Bryant in saying:
'Truth crushed to earth will rise again.'”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Give Us the Ballot"
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"There is something in our faith that says evil may so shape events that Caesar will occupy the palace and Christ the cross, but one day that same Christ will rise up and split history into A.D. and B.C., so that even the name, the life of Caesar must be dated by his name....
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"There is a dire need today for a liberalism which is truly liberal. What we are witnessing today [...] is a sort of quasi-liberalism which is based on the principle of looking sympathetically at all sides. It is a liberalism so bent on seeing all sides, that it fails to become committed to either side.
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I'm just going to keep going.
Here are four more.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1228320048/black-history-mlk-speeches-martin-luther-king
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Today I am thinking of a great man, one who spoke of and lived towards the idea of an America that many of us around the world hold dear. Long live the legacy of Martin Luther King. #MartinLutherKingJrDay
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Photo: Reg Lancaster/Getty via "Los Angeles Times"
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Then, as now...
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington.
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@djwfyi It is #MartinLutherKingJrDay and that is worth remembering and celebrating!
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Stay focused and be a pillar of your community. Help where and when you can especially over the next 4 years as there will be a lot of pain!
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
[Martin Luther King Jr.]
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Despite the incoming cold weather, many Houstonians plan to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Here are some of the upcoming events scheduled for this weekend and Monday.
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On #martinlutherkingjrday,THIS is what they're talking about on the Fox News Comedy Festival.
With their token Black panelist.
Another one who's not kinfolk.
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The networks are talking about Trump all morning.
The Dallas Cowboys got their ass kicked on national TV.
Fox airing promos for the Daytona 500 and politics coverage as soon as the Packers started blowing out their beloved Cowboys yesterday.
And it's #martinlutherkingjrday
Sounds about white.
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What are they talking about on the news and the morning shows?
Trump.
An asshole who wants to turn this country BACK into the racist and segregated one MLK and others fought against.
Automatic change the channel.