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Their school isn’t at risk of closure, but students from Brooklyn’s P.S. 261 still spent the morning protesting.

To commemorate Martin Luther King Day, for which schools will be closed on Monday, P.S. 261 students marched from their Boerum Hill school to Brooklyn Borough Hall, carrying placards calling for peace and singing protest songs such as “We Shall Not Be Moved.”

Now in its third year, the annual event is the culmination of several weeks of intensive study about the civil rights leader Martin Luther King. (more…)