A Stunning New Boston Memorial Will Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King
In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. returned to the city where he and Coretta Scott went to graduate school and first met.
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.
Ninety years ago this month, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.
In a way, Boston is the place where Martin Luther King Jr. accelerated his life’s work as a civil rights leader.
Should Boston’s memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta, be located on Boston Common or in Roxbury? Last Friday the city got a deeply ambivalent answer: both.
You could say they have a dream.