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Spectators gathered along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd in Dallas to watch the parade on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday was marked in Dallas with the annual parade down the street bearing his name.

Dallas and Fort Worth hold MLK Day parades, plus a warm start to the new week.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered with parades across North Texas.

100,000-plus people are expected to watch the return of the MLK Parade in Dallas.

MLK Day celebrations, including parades and festivals, will occur in North Texas today.

Each year, Dallas ISD students honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy by taking part in the MLK Oratory Competition. This year, they were asked, “what would Dr. King say to us about hope for tomorrow?” Photojournalist John Thompson captured their answers.

Here’s where you can find some MLK Day events around the metroplex.

Wherever you are, you can do something good. That’s exactly what a young man from Bedford decided to do.

Two brothers from Bedford teamed up to help serve the homeless of Fort Worth.

On this MLK day, a couple of Dallas organizations in South Dallas partnered to address an issue Dr. King spoke of often. A new community cold food storage is now operating in an unlikely place, and it will more than quadruple the organizations’ food distribution efforts.

Volunteers and community leaders used the Martin Luther King holiday to clean up a neglected location in an historic African American neighborhood that has suffered years of decline.

Volunteers and community leaders used the Martin Luther King holiday to clean up a neglected location in an historic African American neighborhood that has suffered years of decline.

The City of Dallas will dedicate painted crosswalks emblazoned with the phrase “All Black Lives Matter.”

More than 50 years after his death, eight student finalists from the Dallas ISD presented their views on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for equality in America.

Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday.

Crosswalks painted at six southern Dallas neighborhoods were dedicated on Monday, in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday.

The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is honoring him on Monday by leading a voting rights march in Washington D.C. Vote.org CEO Andrea Hailey makes the case that voting rights is this generation’s civil rights issue.

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. crossed over D.C.’s new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Monday as the world honors King’s life and legacy.

Crosswalks painted at six southern Dallas neighborhoods will be dedicated on Monday, in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday.