{"id":90748,"date":"2026-01-19T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90748\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:10:07","slug":"greater-philadelphias-2026-martin-luther-king-day-of-service-focusing-on-equity-in-education-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90748\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Philadelphia&#8217;s 2026 Martin Luther King Day of Service focusing on &#8216;Equity in Education&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temple University will serve as the headquarters for service projects happening around the tri-state area for the 31st annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker will be joined Monday morning by local leaders, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They&#8217;ll help out with the signature project of assembling what they call &#8220;Book Arks,&#8221; self-standing structures that will offer free books to organizations in local and underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Every year, there&#8217;s a regional signature project led by thousands of volunteers from Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They will be honoring Dr. King&#8217;s legacy of social justice by transforming this national holiday into a day where the everyday person takes action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Events like this will be held across the tri-state area, tying into the overarching theme this year of highlighting Dr. King&#8217;s commitment to civil rights through equity in education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The opening ceremony begins at 9 a.m. at Pearson and McGonigle Hall, followed by free events for the public that include workshops, a kids carnival, a health and wellness fair, and a jobs and opportunity fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temple University will serve as the headquarters for service projects happening around the tri-state area for the 31st&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9537,24178,33,44680,69,71,70,10869,44747],"class_list":["post-90748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cherelle-parker","tag-greater-philadelphia","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-temple-university","tag-tri-state-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}