Ominous clouds gathered over Cambridge Common at midday Friday as about 70 interfaith clergy members stood praying near the end of a 12-mile march protesting President Trump’s immigration policies.

King naturally comes to things from a different direction. "Martin Luther King Jr is really the defence attorney," says Joseph. "He defends Black lives to white people and white lives to Black people.

There’s an Embrace morning bun — named after, and designed to resemble, the Common’s famed monument representing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King — created ...

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury. Sixty years later — on ...

Boston residents are being given the chance to provide input on which of the five selected Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King memorials they want to see permanently installed in the Boston ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is completely surrounded as he leads a civil rights march in Boston, April 23, 1965, en route to historic Boston Common where he will address a crowd. (AP Photo, file) ...

BOSTON — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated ...

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, including ...

First , there was “bloody Sunday” and “turnaround Tuesday,” then there was a rally in Boston in 1965 over housing discrimination and school segregation. Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior led the ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, ... April 26, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 ...

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.

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury. Sixty years later — on a ...