Imari Paris Jeffries, the president and CEO of Embrace Boston, which along with the city put on the rally, said the event was a chance to remind people that elements of the “promissory note” King ...

On April 23, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent civil ... Sixty years later, Embrace Boston, Everyone250, and the City of Boston will honor the historic event with the 60th ...

Hill, a writer, said she is supportive of Embrace Boston’s mission to honor King. “I believe that change starts with us, regardless of what’s happening in our nation. We have the power to ...

A 10,000-person rally will be held on the Boston Common Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally. Embrace Boston, in collaboration with Everyone250 and the City of ...

NBC10 and The Boston Globe are co-presenting a special about the civil right activist and his wife, Coretta Scott King. It’s called “Embrace: The Kings” and it focuses on their time in ...

Change takes time, says Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston, the organization behind the King memorial in the Boston Common. "We, as people of color, as Black folks in this ...

the president and CEO of Embrace Boston, which along with the city put on the rally, said the event was a chance to remind people that elements of the “promissory note” King referred to in his ...

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The vast collection of photos features nearly 225 musicians, including David Bowie, Madonna, Donna Summer, The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, U2, Philip Glass, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Orbison, Janet Jackson, ...

To honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we look at images of the influential leader and the civil rights movement traveling through Boston and Cambridge in the 1960s. King visited Boston in 1965 ...

WE A group of people gathered at the "Embrace" statue in Boston Common on Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally led by Martin Luther King Jr.Organizers ...