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Westfield virtual MLK commemoration highlights local anti-racism actions, HRAC and community dialogue
Summary
At a virtual Jan. 2021 commemoration, Westfield’s Martin Luther King Jr. Association played an excerpt of Dr. King’s 1967 speech, previewed a walking tour of local African American history, and featured an HRAC update and community Dialogue Circles aimed at combating local hate incidents.
Elizabeth Wolf, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Westfield, opened the 34th annual interfaith commemoration in a Jan. 2021 virtual program and framed the event around the final six minutes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech "Where Do We Go From Here? — Chaos or Community?" Wolf said the past year had been "profoundly difficult" because of the COVID-19 pandemic and called the summer 2020 protests after the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd a widening of public consciousness about racial inequity.
The program included a recorded excerpt of Dr. King’s speech emphasizing what speakers repeatedly called a ‘‘holy dissatisfaction’’ with persistent racial and economic inequities. The service also featured local presentations tying that national history to Westfield: a walking tour and historical research, a community anti-racism collaborative that runs Dialogue Circles, and an update on the town’s Human Relations Advisory Commission…
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