The city of Boston unveiled a new memorial sculpture in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Friday. The reception for the 22-foot statue has been decidedly mixed — ranging ...

Boston’s latest public art piece, “The Embrace,” was unveiled on Boston Common Friday. The memorial is meant to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, and depicts the embrace shared ...

Is Boston’s new MLK statue ... A new monument in Boston commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. is ... “The Embrace” is an undeniably striking statue unveiled last week at the Boston Common.

In 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally from Roxbury, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Boston, to the Boston Common. With the crowd of 20,000 singing and chanting freedom ...

A statue honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, ... Boston Common. Weighing 309 pounds, the statue sits on the site where the civil rights leader gave a speech on April 23, 1965.

The 65,000-pound statue was approved by the couple’s son Martin Luther King III and cost $10 million to produce. It was unveiled in Boston last week. Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

On April 23, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed a large rally at the Boston Common, after completing a protest march from Roxbury. / Photo by Bettman via Getty Images ...

It was installed on Boston Common, near to where Dr and Mrs King met while studying in the city in the 1950s, and family members were invited to an unveiling last Friday ahead of MLK Day on Monday.

Leslie Jones gave her thoughts on an accidentally NSFW MLK Jr. statue recently unveiled in Boston. The Daily Show “Leslie Jones saying what everyone is thinking about when seeing the MLK statue ...

The Embrace is, everyone at least agrees, a striking new statue unveiled this weekend in the Boston Common that depicts the giant bronze arms of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife ...

They hired Hank Willis Thomas to create this sculpture that would wind up in Boston Common. Sitting on the 1965 Freedom Plaza, which honors 69 local civil rights leaders,” Kelly explained.