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The community is invited to celebrate the achievements and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. at First Presbyterian Church in Everett Sunday, Jan. 19.

The theme of this year’s event is “Elevating Our Community: Whatever Affects One Directly Affects All Indirectly’” comes from King’s open letter, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The civil rights leader wrote the letter in 1963 after he read eight clergymen’s criticism of his nonviolent protests in a newspaper that had been smuggled into the jail in Birmingham, Alabama.

Leilani Miller of Millenia Ministries will be the keynote s...