BOSTON — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated ...

The gathering was near the site of a 20-foot-high memorial to racial equity, which shows Martin Luther King Jr. embracing his wife, Coretta Scott King. U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Massachusetts ...

Martin Luther King III, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley spoke at the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Rally.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is completely surrounded as he leads a civil rights march in Boston, April 23, 1965, en route to historic Boston Common where he will address a crowd.

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the work of 1960s civil rights leaders remains unfinished, with too many people still experiencing racism, poverty and injustice.

BOSTON (AP) — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city's segregated ...

Local News Boston rally honors 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Freedom Rally “I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that.

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury. Sixty years later — on a ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s eldest son warned that the Trump administration’s efforts to wipe out diverse perspectives and target immigrants might lead the country into “a state of ...

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— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968 “The criminal legal system is racist, xenophobic, rogue, and fundamentally flawed beyond reform,” Pressley told reporters on a call Wednesday.