High School Multicultural Club celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday by teaching their younger peers about his message.
Every year the high school's multicultural club students work together to celebrate and live out the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King. This year the students focused their efforts on spreading the message of Dr. King with their younger peers visiting the students at both Euclid and Lincoln schools, talking to them about the importance of celebrating diversity and how his work has made the world a better a place. Although Martin Luther King Day is observed on Monday, Jan. 21 his actual birthday is Jan. 15 and the students decided to spend Tuesday honoring his message, said teacher Lauren Czekaj, the club's advisor. The students work to serve on King day making it a day on, not a day off, she explained. The students who all represent …
Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy lives on in Hasbrouck Heights High School
On Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last birthday, Jan. 15, 1968, he held a breakfast which gathered together community leaders of myriad races and ethnicities. At that breakfast he said that this, a gathering of all peoples, was his vision and hope for the future. Today, Meron Aberha, a junior at Hasbrouck Heights High School has humbly accepted the mission of seeing that dream come to fruition. With the help of Laura Czekaj, an English teacher at Hasbrouck Heights High School, Aberha has put together “One School, Many Nations” an event that will take place on Jan. 17 , Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. On that day, as Aberha has planned, students who have volunteered to participate will set up 24 tables which will display the various aspects of 32 …
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