Boston King was sentenced on Tuesday in a Perth court over the 2022 offences, when he mowed down the animals in a LandCruiser. ... which were beloved to the local community of Bullsbrook.

Mel King celebrates at the Parker House in Boston on Oct. 11, 1983, after finding out he has made it into the final round of elections for Boston mayor. King ultimately lost to Ray Flynn.

Racial Justice Mel King, civil rights icon and historic Boston mayoral candidate, dies at 94 King was the first Black person to make it onto a general election ballot as a candidate for Boston mayor.

Mel King, who died at 94 on March 28, served as a state legislator before becoming the first Black man to reach a Boston mayoral contest. He ran against fellow representative Ray Flynn in 1983.

Longtime Boston civil rights activist Mel King, whose 1983 campaign for mayor helped the city repair some of the racial divisions sparked during the school busing crisis, has died.