{"id":136148,"date":"2026-01-16T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136148\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:40:38","slug":"community-to-honor-mlks-legacy-at-annual-awards-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136148\/","title":{"rendered":"Community to honor MLK&#8217;s legacy at annual awards breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As we approach the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., one local organization is getting ready to celebrate his legacy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image provided by{ }Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Committee (KBAK\/KBFX){p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19d07d50-e5e0-418a-9cec-e429182f0526-MLK1.png\"\/>Image provided by{ }Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Committee (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>The Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Committee Community Awards Breakfast is taking place Monday January 19 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center on South Owens Street.<\/p>\n<p>The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. with check in starting at 8.<\/p>\n<p>Event Organizer Sunni Crawford joined Eyewitness News Mornings to share more details.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is also holding a community luncheon and clothing giveaway on January 19 at the MLK Community Center from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image provided by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Committee (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f7625c72-7a4f-4b60-935e-28598bf5f517-MLK2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image provided by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Committee (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As we approach the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-136148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}