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.

After a mass shooting in Buffalo took 10 lives, people in San Antonio say they're heartbroken. Meanwhile, a mental health professional said we need a mental health movement to prevent this from happening again.

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. Mentoring Monday is a networking event in which attendees will spend time with mentors in mini-sessions to learn what it takes to be successful in the business community.

Click here 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. The city is also requiring any gathering in Pittman Sullivan Park or ML King Park to be in accordance with health guidelines for outdoor gatherings and observe social distancing. Read more stories about Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in San Antonio and beyond on our Voices Of A Nation page.

SAN ANTONIO – This year’s cancellations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are now spilling over into 2021 as San Antonio’s MLK Commission has voted to forgo the annual march and is planning a virtual-only event. Dr. Keely Petty, MLK Commission Chair, said the decision ultimately came down to the safety and well-being of the thousands of people who attend the march. She said the idea behind going virtual-only was in part inspired by how the Democratic and Republican National Conventions were held and said she did not want to delay the decision. San Antonio’s MLK March is one of, if not the largest march in the country with hundreds of thousands of participants. The MLK Commission is a volunteer organization that promotes equality and racial harmony and takes the lead on events paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Watch: Hundreds of thousands of people march in San Antonio’s 2020 MLK March:

San Antonio has been here before: Decades following the civil rights movement and farmworker strikes, locals have remained defiant in the face of police brutality, racism and inequality. Images from UTSAs Special Collections, which include stills from the San Antonio Express-News and San Antonio Light, show the citys presence during movements of civil rights and farmworkers. San Antonio civil rights activist arrested in the 1960s supporting ongoing protestsThe integration was one way San Antonio has fought to be welcoming to all, she said. And that movement continues to be an example to hundreds across San Antonio as they focus on addressing racial injustice in the wake of Floyds death. She is also the program director for the Bethel Prevention Coalition that works with African Americans in San Antonio to reduce drug and alcohol abuse.

San Antonio's MLK March is now among the largest in the country.