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Explore the Experiences at Embrace Honors MLK: Fri Explore the Experiences at Embrace Honors MLK: Friends & Family!

Make the most of your evening with a variety of activations:

✨ @everyone_250 Living Archive Showcase
✨ The Lit Lounge by @justbook_ish
✨ Photo Booth with @theexodusbooth
✨ Community Reflection Mirror
✨ Bid with Purpose (Silent Auction)
✨ Embrace & @wellwithall_Giveaways

Check out the map to plan your night of celebration and connection! #EmbraceSneakerBall
Dinner plans before Embrace Honors MLK: Friends an Dinner plans before Embrace Honors MLK: Friends and Family? We’ve got you covered. 

Embrace Honors MLK attendees get:
10% off at @fuji.restaurants at Ink Block
10% off food at @barmezzana (w/ beverage)

Make it a full night out! #EmbraceSneakerBall
Tonight’s the night! Despite the snow, Embrace Tonight’s the night!

Despite the snow, Embrace Honors MLK: A Celebration of Belonging is happening as planned. Please travel safely, we look forward to welcoming you.

✨ Doors open at 8:00 PM | Open bar from 8:00–9:00 PM

✨ Dine nearby: Show your ticket for 10% off at @fuji.restaurants at Ink Block and @barmezzana (food with beverage)

✨ Parking: SoWa lot ($40) or 324 Albany St ($2.50 per ½ hour, max $20/day)

Use the hashtag #EmbraceSneakerBall and tag us throughout the night. See you soon in celebration and community 🧡
We’re SO ready for Embrace Honors MLK: Friends a We’re SO ready for Embrace Honors MLK: Friends and Family! 

Specially for listening to our Artists-in-Residence @zakiyyah_official powerful voice. 

Thank you @thehubtoday for the invite ❤️

#mlkweekend #mlk #embracesneakergala
“If Martin Luther King Jr. Day is to mean anythi “If Martin Luther King Jr. Day is to mean anything, it must cost something. It must trouble priorities and power. Otherwise, it remains what it too often is. A manageable King. A softened demand. A radical history rendered safe, smoothed down, and erased cleanly with a No. 2 pencil.”

Read @askimari’s full piece on @baystatebanner: https://baystatebanner.com/2026/01/15/what-we-erase-with-a-no-2-pencil-on-martin-luther-king-jr-day/
“We have to be able to listen to each other.” “We have to be able to listen to each other.” — Marie St. Fleur

As our 2026 Embrace Honors MLK honoree, we celebrate Marie St. Fleur—a visionary civic leader whose steady guidance helped bring the Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King memorial to the Boston Common.
Today is Dr. King’s actual birthday. Not the lo Today is Dr. King’s actual birthday.

Not the long weekend. Not the sanitized soundbites.

The man was a disruptor. A threat to the status quo. A visionary who dared to speak truth to power about racism, war, and poverty—and paid the price.

As our country grapples with deepening divides and the urgent need for repair, we remember Dr. King not just as a dreamer and visionary, but as a builder of a new world. One rooted in justice, love, and accountability.

Let’s stop reducing his legacy to convenience. Let’s rise to meet the clarity of his call. Let's meet this moment together. 

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We’re thrilled to introduce the distinguished ho We’re thrilled to introduce the distinguished honorees for Embrace Honors MLK 2026 ✨

This year, we lift up visionary leaders whose service, courage, and imagination carry forward the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. As we approach the 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence, we gather to recognize those shaping a more just and hopeful future.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King Award Recipients
• Chancellor Julie Chen & Susu Wong
• Lady Luella & Bishop William Dickerson
• Patricia & Thomas O’Brien
• Kathy & Richard L. Taylor

Champion Award Recipients
• Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III
• Marie St. Fleur

Learn more at the link in our bio:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/knpsv2b4
As Renee Good's killing at the hands of ICE rocks As Renee Good's killing at the hands of ICE rocks Minneapolis and the rest of the country, journalists like Georgia Fort are risking their safety to pull the curtain back on ICE's aggressive immigration campaign.

Because telling the truth and being on the right side of history is worth the price.
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