Mel King, a prominent civil rights figurehead in Boston credited with much of the city's progress on integration in the 1970s and 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 94.

King served in the state legislature and was the first Black person to run for mayor of Boston in 1983. He was also well-known for fighting for affordable housing and services in the city.

Boston gave Melvin King a goodbye in the neighborhood he was born in, served in, and died in. The Union Methodist Church in the heart of Boston’s South End was filled with the memories of Mel ...

Four Boston schools in a city building were renamed Wednesday to honor civil rights leader Mel King, who died one month ago.The McKinley Schools in Boston's South End is now known as the Melvin H ...

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.

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