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MHRC Invites Community to Volunteer in MLK Day of Service, Attend Free MLK Concerts

Municipal Buildings will be closed on Monday, January 15, in observance of MLK JR Day. Trash & Recycling will be delayed by one day.
Posted on: January 11, 2024 - 6:00pm
MLK Jr., People with hands raised as if to volunteer.

The Melrose Human Rights Commission (MHRC) invites the Melrose community to honor MLK’s vision by volunteering during the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and by joining MLK-inspired concerts taking place in honor of the holiday. On this city-wide MLK Day of Service, hundreds of people from all over Melrose will complete service activities across the city.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (Monday, January 15, 10 AM to 12 PM)

How to Volunteer:

  • Visit the Sign Up Genius featuring over 500 volunteer opportunities with 13 different host organizations. Note that many host organizations are offering two volunteer shifts (10-10:45 AM and 11:15 AM-12 PM).
  • Volunteering as a group/family? Please sign up each participant as space is limited at many locations.
  • After you have signed up: Please note the time and location of where you are volunteering.
  • Show up to your location on Monday. The service host will be there to greet you and provide instructions.

The Folk Collective FREE Concert (Sunday, January 14, 7 PM)

The MHRC is proud to elevate and sponsor The Opening Doors Project’s next FREE concert with The Folk Collective, a diverse group of musicians and cultural thought leaders. For this special performance, members of The Collective will perform together and then engage in a conversation about communal activism and Dr. King’s “beloved community.” Learn more and reserve tickets HERE.

MLK Day Choir (Monday, January 15, 7 PM)

In honor of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, the Anti-Racism Team of the Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church invites the Melrose community to attend a performance of the Melrose MLK Choir. The Choir will sing songs in the African American tradition as well as songs from South Africa and Haiti. For more information, visit https://www.melroseuu.org/mlkcelebration/

Through its annual MLK Day of Service, the MHRC hopes for Melrose to get closer to MLK’s vision of "creating a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thank you for honoring MLK’s vision and for helping to create a “beloved community."
The Melrose Human Rights Commission

Linda Apple; Randall Carter; Bonnie Clapp; Doug DiBrielle; Kelsey Lima; Joe Phillips; Jake Rogers; Jen Strasburger; and Fatma Ulku Duru.