{"id":104900,"date":"2026-01-19T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104900\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:40:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-the-brooklyn-academy-of-music-honors-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104900\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | The Brooklyn Academy of Music Honors the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso held the 40th Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The event is known as New York City&#8217;s largest and longest-running public celebration for MLK.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2,000 people have turned out for this tribute, affectionally known as &#8220;King Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event features everything from music and dance to youth performances, free film screenings and family activities. Everything is to celebrate Dr. King&#8217;s legacy of justice, life and community.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani is in attendance and will be a part of the reading of &#8220;The Drum Major Instinct&#8221; at The Brooklyn Academy of Music tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso held the 40th Annual Tribute to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,25710,46039,46296,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-104900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-martin-luther-king-jr","12":"tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day","13":"tag-mlk-day","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}