The Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service of Commemoration
Sunday, January 18, 2026
3:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church, 486 Main Street Hyannis.
An opportunity for food and fellowship will follow the service. The service will also be live-streamed. Access the link on the website. We ask all attendees to bring a donation of non-perishable goods to go to the Hands of Hope Food Pantry, a program of the Cape Cod Council of Churches.
All are invited to gather in person to celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 18, 2025. This special ecumenical service will begin at 3:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Hyannis, located at 486 Main Street, Hyannis. The service may also be accessed livestreamed using the link found on the website.
The service will feature Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. who is the founding Executive Director of Atlantic Black Box (ABB). ABB is a grassroots historical recovery organization that empowers communities throughout the Northeast to research and reckon with the region’s role in colonization and slavery while recentering the stories of its historically marginalized groups. Originally from Cape Cod, Meadow lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula, where she published a cultural magazine from 1996–2000 and coordinated foreign study programs. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. Meadow served as Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice from 2019–2023. Through ABB’s ongoing Walks for Historical and Ecological Recovery (WHERE), Meadow is collaborating with committed individuals, community groups, organizations, and Tribal nations to grow a regional movement that supports sustained local engagement efforts to surface truth, foster healing, and achieve justice.
The choral group, Rock Voices, will perform.
A good will offering will benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Cape Cod Branch of the NAACP. Non-perishable food items will be collected to go to the Hands of Hope Food Pantry. Fellowship, sponsored by the Cape Cod Synagogue, Latinx in Action and the Cape Cod Council of Churches, will follow the service at the church.
All are welcome.
The Organizing Committee for the Annual Rev. Dr. MLK Jr Service. Members of this committee include: the Cape Cod Branch of the NAACP, the Cape Cod Council of Churches, Barnstable No Place for Hate, the First Baptist Church, Hyannis, Latinx in Action and the Cape Cod Synagogue.
