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Hundreds gathered Monday at Starlight in Cambridge’s Central Square to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., and to walk the streets of the neighborhood while learning about the local Black and Brown history. “We are challenging people to think about MLK as if he was on this walk with us,” said Nico Emack, one of the event’s organizers. Emack prefers...

In-person events have been limited due to the pandemic, so many local leaders joined virtual events like an annual collaboration between the City of Boston, Boston University — where King got his PhD in the 1950s — and the New England Conservatory — where Coretta Scott King got her music degree.