A rally is being held in Boston on Saturday to honor the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally. ... the original rally drew over 20,000 people to demand justice in housing and education.

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.

Local News Boston rally honors 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Freedom Rally “I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that.

Protestor Doreen Wade, of Cambridge, who, as a 6-year-old attended the 1965 Freedom Rally, knees during a speech by Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll commemorating the 60th anniversary of it on ...

Hundreds of people hold a rally at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday, April 26, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which featured ...

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 ...

Doreen Wade, kneeling, at the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rally on Boston Common on April 26, 2025. Trajan ... “Because as we take a snapshot of where we are in issues of education, in issues of ...

A rally is being held in Boston on Saturday to honor the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally. News. ... the original rally drew over 20,000 people to demand justice in housing and education.

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.

Wayne Lucas, right, who sixty years ago participated at the Freedom Rally on Boston Common, talks with Imari Paris Jeffries, the president and CEO of Embrace Boston, at the “The Embrace ...

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.

This is the promissory note -- public education, public housing, ... 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which featured Martin Luther King Jr.