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Rally held in Boston honoring 60 years since MLK's 1965 Freedom Rally
A group of people gathered at the "Embrace" statue in Boston Common on Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ...
Trump’s attack on diversity takes center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK
Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...
‘We’re up to the test’: Ahead of 1965 Freedom Rally anniversary, MLK III offers his own rallying cry
Martin Luther King III and Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston reflected on the rally's legacy in a fireside chat ...
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Organizers to mark MLK Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston with march of their own
Local organizers plan to mark MLK Jr.'s historic 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston by holding a march of their own.
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King Center, Black Voters Matter launch social justice program based on ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’
The King Center and voting rights advocacy group Black Voters Matter are uniting to influence a new generation of activists.
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60 years ago, my grandfather joined Martin Luther King's Boston march
Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...
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MLK’s Famous Letter Changed a DC Church
A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...
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How Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘dream’ inspired the Vatican through Pope Francis
“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ‘dream’ of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther ...
After 8 years, city to replace Martin Luther King memorial in Avondale
The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.