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						<span class="Caption">Photo of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial courtesy of Keith Sealing.</span>
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		</div>Both Widener University School of Law locations will hold events commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The national observation takes place Jan. 19 and the school will be closed that day.<br><br><strong>Widener Law Delaware</strong> will hold its event at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom. The school will give its Martin Luther King Service Award to Youth Court programs developed at Bayard Middle School in Wilmington and Chester High School in Chester, Pa.<br><br>This is the fifth year the school has given the award, which goes to a community member or organization that has brought life to King’s dream, and whose work has manifested those commitments to community service and to social justice that the school of law seeks to realize in its annual Semester of Service project. <br><br>Widener Law Delaware Youth Court program students, under the supervision of faculty, train public school students to act as attorneys, judges and jurors in matters involving their peers who are accused of minor school offenses. It is a model of restorative justice, where the emphasis is on repairing harm caused by wrongdoing.<br><br>In addition, the program will feature remarks from Keith Reeves, associate professor of political science and faculty director of the Center for Social Policy Studies at Swarthmore College, and a kickoff of the Semester of Service project, now in its ninth year.<br><br><strong>Widener Law Commonwealth</strong> will hold its event at noon Thursday, Jan. 22 in The Pit in the classroom building. Food and drinks will be served.<br><br>The event, titled “The Growing Rift Between Civilians and Police: What Would Martin Luther King do to Bridge the Gap?” will examine race relations in the United States given recent controversies about the use of force by white police officers on unarmed black citizens and demonstrations that have ensued after grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Mo. and Staten Island, N.Y.<br><br>Speakers will include Tracy Henry of the Keystone Bar Association and Trent Hargrove, diversity officer for the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Others may be added.<br><br>The program is presented by the Dean of Students Office.