{"id":128069,"date":"2026-01-18T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128069\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:54:07","slug":"celebrations-planned-across-north-texas-in-honor-of-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128069\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations planned across North Texas in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the third Monday in January, we honor the life and memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has several celebrations planned, including some starting as soon as Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Black Academy of Arts and Letters will kick off MLK Day with its 43rd annual Black Music and Civil Rights Movement Concert, a tribute to Dr. King, on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Then, on Monday, there are multiple big events honoring Dr. King across DFW, including the 44th annual MLK Day parade in Dallas. That begins at 10:30 a.m. and will return to its original route.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Fort Worth, the MLK Day parade begins at 11 a.m. and starts at the corner of 9th and Commerce Street. It will end at Main and Third Street, Sundance Plaza.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys of Color Rodeo, the world’s largest multicultural rodeo, will kick off at 2 p.m. inside Dickies Arena. In addition to celebrating the life of Dr. King, it will celebrate the life of its founder, Cleo Hearn<\/a>, who passed away in November.<\/p>\n

Banks, post offices and government offices will be closed Monday for the federal holiday, but most major grocery stores like H-E-B, Walmart, Costco and Target will be open.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the third Monday in January, we honor the life and memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2919,102,116,118,117,6713],"class_list":["post-128069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-civil-rights","tag-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-martin-luther-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}