Over 500 community members of various races, ages, occupations and organizations united on a chilly Monday to march in the annual King National Holiday Parade down E. University Avenue in Gainesville to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The parade is part of the 41st King Celebration Anniversary, a series of events set from Jan. 11-20 celebrating King’s 96th birthday and centered around 2025’s theme, “A Resilient People, We’re Not Going Back!”
“Different people stand for different things, but we’ve got many people across the country today doing this to honor Martin Luther King Jr.,” said John Alexander, Gainesville’s director of government affairs and community relations. “Some people feel like our country is divided. But it’s events like this that bring us together. That’s what MLK was all about.”…