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We look forward to celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday with this annual free and family-friendly event featuring contemporary poets and actors reading historic speeches from King, Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others.

This Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry program was created in 2006.  Previous readers include: Jericho Brown, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Julian Randall, Joseph Ross, Melanie Henderson, DeMaris Hill, and more.

Support Food Pantry Recommendations from “Not Just Another Day Off”:

• World Central Kitchen

• Lutheran Church of the Reformation.

• Server Your City DC

• Manna Food Center (Montgomery County)