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In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Carter Playground on the edge of Roxbury to Boston Common. It was ...
Marin Luther King III is joining community leaders for the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common later ...
“As Martin Luther King said 57 years ago this April, we’ve got some difficult days ahead. Difficult, but not impossible,” said Segun Idowu, Boston's chief of economic opportunity and inclusion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be celebrated on Jan. 15 this year and organizations in and around Boston are offering plenty of ways for residents to honor the late civil rights leader and his ...
Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... Later, King received a divinity degree and ...
Speakers rallied thousands of people as they marched across Boston to protest the policies of President Donald Trump in an ...
Embrace Boston, Everyone250, and the City of Boston will honor this historic event with the 60th Anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Saturday, April 26, from noon to 2:30 p.m., at The Embrace on ...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South," in which ...
Latifat Odetunde ’22 recalls being moved to tears when attending the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship banquet during her first year at Boston College. As a high school student in Providence, she was ...