MLK Mass Shines Spotlight on Youth as ‘Future Leaders, Agents of Change’

January 20, 2026 | The Tablet

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FLATLANDS — Dorene Allman said she remembers watching Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral procession on television in April 1968. She was 11 at the time.  

“I saw his wife, Coretta Scott King,” she recalled. “She was holding the hand of their youngest, Bernice, who followed in his footsteps as a pastor.”