Hundreds expected at MLK Day events

A local nonprofit dedicated to teaching nonviolent protest will host a day of service and memorial events Monday in observance of the 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

A federal holiday, the first MLK Day was observed on Jan. 20, 1986, 18 years after the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. A petition of 6 million signatures led to