On Thursday, Colleges of the Fenway (COF), a five-institution collaboration located in the Fenway neighborhood in Boston, announced the signing of a formal partnership between the consortium and King Boston…
The loving relationship between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, will be immortalized with a permanent memorial on Boston Common.
Boston officials, artists and athletes honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on Monday.
Today, Martin Luther King Jr. is most remembered as an activist and the face of the American civil rights movement. But King’s civil rights activism began at the pulpit, as a minister.
Boston played a key role in Martin Luther King Jr.’s early life. He was an assistant minister at the Twelfth Baptist Church while he was getting his doctorate at Boston University.
Boston has waited more than 50 years to build a monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, his wife. It will have to wait one year more.
On May 17, 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and addressed a crowd of 25,000 that massed to demonstrate in the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom.
King Boston, the four-year-old nonprofit behind the planned memorial for Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Boston Common, has received a $1 million gift from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.’s foundation…
Grant will support development of King Boston’s Center for Economic Justice and other community efforts in Boston
Reparations means to repair. In Boston, a legacy of city-sanctioned policies and practices continues to disproportionately harm Black students.
