The Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center announced that Academy/Emmy Award Winner Louis Gossett, Jr. will deliver the 2018 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. address. The annual event will take place Sunday, January 14 at 3:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary of the First Unitarian Universalist Society Meeting House, 152 Pearl Street. The event is free but ticketed. Tickets are available at the Fletcher Free Library, City Market, and the Peace & Justice Center.

There will also be a panel discussion on Monday, January 15, 12:00 p.m. at the Fletcher Free Library, “Race, Crime and the Criminal Justice System,” an examination of the disproportionate number of minorities incarcerated in Vermont.