Northern to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Several activities including a reading program, community feed and a presentation by a civil rights activist will take place in Havre later this week to commemorate the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of what would have been his 88th birthday Sunday.

Students in grades kindergarten through six will learn about King today and Thursday through Read for Peace, a program by the Montana Campus Compact and AmeriCorps in which volunteers visit schools in Havre and throughout the state to read age-appropriate books about the civil rights icon.

Benjamin Dillon, a Montana Campus Compact an...