Sixty years on, Lucas was back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the 1965 Freedom Rally. He joined others in calling for continued activism against ...

Driving the news: The nonprofit Embrace Boston is leading a march along the same route as the 1965 Freedom Rally. Martin Luther King III will speak, along with Mayor Michelle Wu, Congresswoman Ayanna ...

BOSTON -- The 1965 Freedom Rally against Boston's segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities brought the civil rights movement to the Northeast. Sixty years on ...

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of ...

Sixty years on, Lucas was back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the 1965 Freedom Rally. He joined others in calling for continued activism ...

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 ...

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 ...