Today would have been the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 91st birthday. Even 52 years after his death, more than ever I feel his spirit on so many fronts, especially here in the Boston, the city he loved and called his second home.
In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. returned to the city where he and Coretta Scott went to graduate school and first met.
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ and MASS Design Group’s “The Embrace,” a bronze-finish sculpture of two pairs of giant arms embracing each other, has been chosen to honor Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. on the Boston Common.
Boston’s belated embrace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a powerful local symbol has moved a huge step closer to fruition.
