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A program in San Antonio is offering free mental health training to faith-based communities for people of color. The program will help break stigma and unravel generational trauma and isolation. ....
26 women leaders in San Antonio will share experiences, advice at SABJ’s free Mentoring Monday event Businesswomen will offer their experience to help other women move up corporate ladder San Antonio Business Journal Updated: Tags: SAN ANTONIO – Editor’s note: This story was published through a partnership between the San Antonio Business Journal and KSAT. The San Antonio Business Journal is again assembling some of the Alamo City’s high-achieving women leaders as mentors for Bizwomen Mentoring Monday 2021. These leading San Antonio businesswomen will offer their experience to help other women move up the corporate ladder at a free online event starting at noon on Feb. 22. Click here to register for the event or for more information. ....
What to know about San Antonio’s 2021 virtual Martin Luther King Jr. March More than 300,000 normally attend march Andrew Wilson, Digital Journalist/Social Media Producer Published: Updated: Tags: to view the 2021 virtual Martin Luther King Jr. March. For the first time since it started in 1987, one of the largest Martin Luther King Jr. Day marches in the United States is going virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic. Last year’s Chair for the San Antonio MLK Jr. Commission, Dr. Keely Petty, said the decision was made to protect the thousands of marchers. “I had to think about the 300,000-plus citizens of our beautiful city who come out and honor that dream every year,” she said. ....
Front pages show the evolution of the MLK March in San Antonio From 1968 to 1988 to 2009 to 2021, the march keeps evolving and growing Updated: Tags: SAN ANTONIO – The 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. March will look vastly different this year. Instead of thousands of people marching in the streets for justice, peace, hope and understanding on Monday, the coronavirus pandemic will force marchers, demonstrators, activists and students to celebrate the life of Dr. King online. It’s an unprecedented virtual event during an unprecedented age, a time when Americans have faced a global health crisis amid a reckoning of racial injustice. The remembrance will also take place nearly two weeks after a makeshift noose was erected outside the U.S. Capitol during the deadly siege, in which a man carrying a Confederate flag walked the halls of Congress. ....