- Dr. King Celebration Weekend 2026 -
January 16-19

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Photos from the Dr. King Celebration Weekend 2025

Thank you to the community of Saratoga Springs, the honorary committee, presenting sponsors, and attendees for making
MLK Saratoga’s 2025 Dr. King Celebration Weekend a success!

Friday, January 17, 2025: Opening Night Community Celebration

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Scenes from Dr. King Celebration Weekend 2024:
The Beloved Community

What is “The Beloved Community” Mindset?

Martin Luther King, Jr. described the “Beloved Community” as a society where “caring and compassion drive political policies that support the worldwide elimination of poverty and hunger and all forms of bigotry and violence. At its core, the ‘Beloved Community’ is an engine of reconciliation.” Read more here

Dr. King Celebration Weekend 2023. Video by DJ Hollyw8d/More Music Less Violence

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Six Steps of Non-Violent Social Change and Principles of Non-Violence

Information Gathering
Education
Personal Commitment
Discussion/Negotiation
Direct Action
Reconciliation

1: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
2: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
3: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice not people.
4: Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform.
5: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
6: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.

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OURstory TREASURE HUNT.

Uncover and explore Saratoga Springs’ history of our People of Color … we cannot truly know ourselves and how we have arrived where we are today until we re-weave the very fabric of OUR shared story — a much more color-full, vibrant and extraordinary tapestry of Humanity than our history books, classrooms, and memories have represented over the centuries. Let’s grow Saratoga Springs’ community into a stronger, healthier tomorrow — for all of us, together.

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