{"id":140747,"date":"2026-01-20T00:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140747\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:29:49","slug":"were-one-today-fresno-marks-mlk-jr-day-with-festive-downtown-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140747\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We\u2019re One Today.’ Fresno Marks MLK Jr. Day With Festive Downtown March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many gathered in downtown Fresno on Monday for the 42nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. march, honoring the civil rights leader\u2019s legacy with a call for unity across racial, political, and social lines.<\/p>\n

The march began at St. John\u2019s Cathedral at 10 a.m., paused at City Hall, and concluded at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is the Dr. Martin Luther King celebration,\u201d said DJ Criner, pastor of St. Rest Baptist Church. \u201cHere locally we\u2019ve marched from St. John Cathedral to our steps of our City Hall now to Veterans (Memorial Auditorium) to give honor and tribute to Dr. King\u2019s legacy and his vision \u2026 for all of us to be together as one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"DJ Criner, pastor of St. Rest Baptist Church (center) poses with a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. and is surrounded by fellow marchers in Downtown Fresno on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (GV Wire\/Jahziel Tello)<\/p>\n

Criner said this year\u2019s celebration carried added weight amid national political and social divisions, but emphasized the unity seen in Fresno.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere in Fresno on this day, we\u2019re not divided by way of political tones, by way of racial tones, even by way of social economics \u2014 we\u2019re one today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Participants from different faiths, cultural backgrounds and age groups joined the march, which Criner described as \u201cfestive,\u201d noting that people of all backgrounds walked together in solidarity.<\/p>\n

Organizers said additional events honoring King\u2019s legacy continued throughout the weekend, including another march from Courtyard Park to the Civic Center later Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many gathered in downtown Fresno on Monday for the 42nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. march, honoring the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-140747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140747","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=140747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}