The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center is now open to the public. After 13 months of construction, the community center officially opened on January 15, 2024.

The center is offering two public tours to the community. A morning tour and a late afternoon tour will be available. Both tours are free, but registration is required.

The public is invited to register on the center’s event pages. A morning tour will be offered on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. or a late afternoon tour on Thursday, February 22, 2024, at 11:30 a.m.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) assisted a What’sUpNewp journalist with the reporting included in this story.

Ryan Belmore is the owner and publisher of What's Up Newp. He took over the publication in 2012 and has grown it into a three-time Rhode Island Monthly Best Local News Blog (2018, 2019, 2020). He was named LION Publishers Member of the Year in 2020 and received the Dominique Award from the Arts & Cultural Society of Newport County the same year. He has been awarded grants for investigative and community journalism, and continues to coach and mentor new local news publications nationwide. Ryan...

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