Back a four day weekend is here as people across the country
celebrate the life and legacy of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior.
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth
is presenting a series of entertainment and community events honoring
the civil rights leader.
So joining us right now is the museum's co founder, Jim Austin.
To really give us all the details on upcoming events,
celebrating King and really shining a light on the community is uh together.
Good morning to you.
Good morning, good morning. Happy Martin Luther King weekend. Yes.
So, so let's talk about this new exhibit.
Well, the museum has been in the stockyards for about seven years and we're still,
we're celebrating um 2324 years of existence, but
we just relocated over to the uh
Gl
Parkway 21 22 01. Gland
Parkway
is the borderline between Arlington and Fort Worth.
But we're real excited about the new exhibits that we have in the museum and
being able to celebrate uh mlmlk holiday
to the museum itself. But this weekend,
we're gonna be kicking off with the cowboys of color invitational rodeo
at the wonderful Dickie's Arena.
In Fort Worth and that'll be, um, Monday
at, uh, 2 p.m.
and the rodeo will be going off, uh, at that time and you will be seeing
black Hispanic native American cowboys, uh, doing what we do is, uh, doing rodeo,
uh, exhibition. So it's always sold out.
So I encourage you to call the museum
and get your tickets if you're planning to come out.
Don't be calling me asking for the hookup.
I'm gonna be all hooked up.
I'm
so do that now. Yes, it really is quite the time.
Tell people what they can truly expect.
And you said Monday, even if we, we see that wintery mix, is it still a go,
it's still a go.
The new Dickie's Arena has a climate control area for where they keep the livestock
so
they're gonna be comfortable.
Come on out. Well,
hopefully it's gonna be dry. It's just gonna be cold,
you know.
But, uh,
come on out and celebrate with us the heritage of the
forgotten cowboys and that's what we do at the museum.
We highlight the fact that
the west,
one third of the west was made up of black Hispanic and native American cowboys.
And, um, when you come to the museum, you'll see, uh, saddles and pictures and,
and, and meet all of our 130 hall of Famers that we've inducted to
tell the past, the present and the future of the Western history.
Now, this is a month long celebration as well.
Um What else do you have planned for folks?
We have a, um, after the rodeo, we invite you to come over to the warehouse,
1125 East Barry
to, uh, have a, uh, day party
and we'll go over and just celebrate the history of Martin Luther King.
And then on the 25th, we'll be doing, um, a day of service
health fair
where we've invited all type of partners in health providing
and you can come out and bring uh blankets and socks for a day of service.
And that's at the warehouse on uh
Saturday the 27th.
And then we have a jazz concert
on the tw on the 18th of uh January at the warehouse featuring
Tom Braxton and
uh Aaron Blake. So you get your music, you get your rodeo, you get your networking on
and you're just celebrating the existence of a great institution,
the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum,
which is
a,
yeah, this is probably our 10th year
um
activities for sure. And it's always good to see you.
And
thank you.
Thank you so much and I wish you guys all
the best of luck even with the winter weather coming.
I, I know you got people showing up as well.
Um We'll make sure we get all that information on our website as well,
Jim at W faa.com.
Thank you so much for joining us here on daybreak.
Thank you and thank you.
ABC Jim Lee, for all the support that you've given us in our 20 years of existence.
Of course.