KMB Awarded MLK Corridor Community Grant

Keep America Beautiful recently announced that affiliate Keep Mobile Beautiful (KMB) has been awarded a $10,000 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Corridor Community Grant. These grants are to revitalize and beautify roads, neighborhoods and parks in or adjacent to areas named in honor of MLK. Keep Mobile Beautiful’s proposal includes cleanups and community involvement in the Historic Oaklawn Cemetery at 1800 Holt Road in Mobile. A community kickoff meeting will be held on September 6 at 9-11 a.m. at Truevine Missionary Baptist Church at 1850 Dr. MLK Avenue. KMB will share the history of this cemetery and all of its needs. KBB will host three cleanups there to include removal of yard waste, previously dumped materials and grass and brush. Additionally, Mobile County District 1 Commissioner Merceria Ludgood approved $5,000 for the project. KMB will use this to provide signage for the streets and sections so that families will be better able to locate the resting place of their loved ones. Additional bollards will be added near the entrance, and brick pillar damage will be repaired.