BOSTON -- The 1965 Freedom Rally against Boston's segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities brought the civil rights movement to the Northeast. Sixty years on, much ...

BOSTON (AP) -- As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city's segregated ...

Martin Luther King III, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley spoke at the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Rally.

The 1965 rally featuring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew a crowd of 20,000. At Saturday’s event, several hundred gathered to to hear a speech from his son, Martin Luther King III.

A crowd gathered on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the 1965 Freedom Rally.

The Boston rally happened after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and months ahead of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed in August.

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, hundreds of people gathered at the same site to honor and reflect ...

Sixty years on, Lucas was back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the 1965 Freedom Rally. He joined others in calling for continued activism ...

Saturday's rally came as the Trump administration is waging war on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in government, schools and businesses around the country, including in Massachusetts.

A rally is being held in Boston on Saturday to honor the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally.

Thousands march through Boston for 60th anniversary of MLK Jr.'s Freedom Rally Doreen Wade, kneeling, at the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rally on Boston Common on April 26, 2025.