Faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and politicians gathered at the Boston Common on Saturday afternoon to honor the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Roxbury to the ...

“As Martin Luther King said 57 years ago this April, we’ve got some difficult days ahead. Difficult, but not impossible,” said Segun Idowu, Boston's chief of economic opportunity and inclusion.

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 school system ...

for a march protesting segregation and discrimination in Boston led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The preteen girls were two of more than 20,000 participants taking part in one of Boston’s ...

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 school system ...

to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which featured Martin Luther King Jr. John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via AP BOSTON (AP) — As a Black teenager ...

Doreen Wade from Cambridge raises her fist in the air at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which ...

Boston Celebrates 1965 Freedom Rally Led by MLK as Advocates Urge Continued Fight Against Injustice BOSTON (AP) — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining ...

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