Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with marchers walking beneath the American flag

Marchers: © Estate of James Karales

Walk with meThe 46th Annual March for the Dream

Monday, January 18, 2027 · Sacramento

Welcome to the March for the Dream, the day that To honor King is to take care of what he started. Caretaking means you don’t just admire the work, you keep it going: you show up, you do your part, and you leave it stronger than you found it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by preparing, equipping and launching you into a year of positive social impact. When you start marching, you start your year.

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Before You March…

Your Free MLK365 Account

This is how you’ll advance it…

We designed the MLK365 account for one reason: to help you carry the march into a year of positive social impact.

A year made effortless.

Every MLK365 account comes with a companion that walks you through the year.

Creating an account will help you to set up, track, and tell your MLK365 story, so a year from now you’ll have something real to say about 2027: what you did, and what it changed.

Do it on your own, or set up your year with your family, your friends, your church or your team.

Create your account before the march, and the day’s your first entry.

And your account gets you a discount on your 2027 MLK365 shirt at the march.

Then invite someone whose life experience is different from yours (another race, religion or background) to walk with you.

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The Dream Pillars

This is what we’re marching to To advance a pillar is to take care of it for the year. You pick one, you act on it, and you leave it a little further along than you found it. That’s what a caretaker does.…

Justice

This pillar is about how you are treated by the system: by police, in a courtroom, and in what happens to a person after a conviction. Most of the harm here isn’t dramatic; it’s somebody being ground down by a process that will not explain itself. Caretaking it means being the one who knows what a person is actually entitled to, and going with them.

Creating an MLK365 account lets you keep track of what you do across the year, and add your own.

Economic

Economic justice is about the margin: the distance between a household and the one thing that would break it. A car repair, a cut shift, a rent increase. Caretaking it means staying close enough to the people around you to know what they are actually short of, which is usually smaller and more specific than a crisis.

Creating an MLK365 account lets you keep track of what you do across the year, and add your own.

Education

A child’s future shouldn’t be decided by the block they were born on. This pillar is the gap between two schools ten minutes apart, and the fifteen-year-old holding a form that assumes somebody at home has filled one out before. Caretaking it means attaching yourself to particular children and staying.

Creating an MLK365 account lets you keep track of what you do across the year, and add your own.

Environmental

The air and the water are not the same everywhere, and the difference tends to track who has power. This pillar is the street with no shade four blocks from a street with plenty, and the inhaler in a kid’s backpack that everyone has stopped thinking about. Caretaking it means paying attention close to home, and coming back.

Creating an MLK365 account lets you keep track of what you do across the year, and add your own.

Equality

Equal treatment and full belonging, whatever your race, gender, faith, disability, where you come from or who you love. The promise of civil rights, for every person. Caretaking it means watching rooms: who is in one and who isn’t, who gets interrupted, whose name people take the trouble to learn.

Creating an MLK365 account lets you keep track of what you do across the year, and add your own.

Voting

This is about having a real say in the decisions that shape your life, not only on election day, but at the council meeting, the school board, the budget hearing, the redrawn map. Most of those rooms have very few people in them. Caretaking it means being one of them, and bringing somebody with you.

Creating an MLK365 account lets you keep track of what you do across the year, and add your own.

Healthcare

Most of the harm here is not a treatment denied at a door. It is an appointment never made, a prescription cut in half to stretch it, a symptom waited out because the visit costs more than the fear. Caretaking it means paying attention to who is not going, and asking the plain question nobody asks: when did you last see anybody?

Creating an MLK365 account lets you keep track of what you do across the year, and add your own.

When you create your MLK365 account, you’ll pick one of these seven to advance in 2027.

Pick one, and your account will suggest small acts you can take on across the year: things small enough to actually do.

Three Powers. a just, equitable and inclusive world, where every person is valued as an equal..

Dr. King showed what becomes possible when ordinary people put their values into practice.

The March for the Dream invites us to discover three powers that helped change history, and that still have the power to change our communities.

The power to understand and value one another. The courage to lead. The willingness to share.

Dr. King carried these powers. Now they’re yours to carry into the year.

The March for the Dream

Sacramento City College

The Power of Understanding and Valuing People

You don’t have to agree with someone to recognize their worth.

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In 1963, Dr. King wrote from a Birmingham jail to eight white clergymen who had criticized the civil rights demonstrations. Rather than dismiss them, he challenged them to recognize how deeply our lives are connected.

King understood something we still need to practice: people who look, worship, or think differently from us are worth exactly what we are worth.

The March offers an opportunity to put that understanding into practice. To invite is to go first. Ask someone outside your circle: a coworker, a neighbor, even someone at home you haven’t really talked with. Understanding starts with an invitation. someone whose life experience is different from yours to walk with you. Introduce yourself. Ask a question. Listen. And look for opportunities to continue those conversations long after the March ends.

Ask yourself: Who haven’t I taken the time to understand, and what might I discover about their worth if I did?

The Dream moves forward when we recognize the humanity in one another.

The Extra Mile

Oak Park Community Center

The Power of Leadership

Leadership begins when someone is willing to go first.

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In 1967, Dr. King spoke out against the Vietnam War. Friends and advisers warned him it could hurt the movement. He knew what it might cost him. He spoke anyway.

Leadership isn’t about having a title. Sometimes it means getting up earlier, going farther, or standing for what’s right when others stay quiet.

That’s the spirit of The Extra Mile, which begins an hour before the march. It’s a chance to reflect on going beyond what’s expected of us, for the sake of others.

Ask yourself: Where in my life am I being called to go the extra mile for someone else?

The Dream moves forward when someone is willing to lead.

The Diversity Expo

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

The Power of Connecting People with Resources

What you find is worth more when you pass it on.

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Dr. King understood that equality meant more than rights on paper. People also needed jobs, education, housing, and the means to build better lives.

His Poor People’s Campaign challenged America to confront poverty. In 1968, he went to Memphis to stand with sanitation workers fighting for fair pay and dignity. It was the last campaign of his life.

The Diversity Expo carries that spirit. It brings people together with jobs, health resources, education, and connections that open doors. And what you find becomes even more valuable when you share it.

Ask yourself: Who else could benefit from what I discover?

The Dream moves forward when we help open doors for one another.

Launch · Monday, January 18, 2027

Three Powers. One Dream. 365 Days.

Walk with someone different from you. Practice leadership. Find something worth passing on.

The March for the Dream is a beginning, not a destination.

What will you do with the other 364 days?

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