Martin Luther King Jr.

The actor’s parents — Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts — became good friends with the civil rights leaders in the 1960s.

Six local artists are celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his wife, Coretta Scott King, as the powerful Embrace Memorial is constructed on Boston Common.

It is one thing to build a sculpture that will soon redefine the Boston landscape. It is another to build it some 2,500 miles away in Washington State. “We really needed the capacity, and we were really confident Walla Walla could do it,” said Sam Giarratani, project manager for “The Embrace.” That need for massive scale is how the sculpture…

While the new statue honoring Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, will stand in Boston Common, it is being constructed in Walla Walla, Washington.

Some 2,500 miles from Boston, community leaders are getting their first look at something years in the making. In a workshop in Walla Walla, Washington, more than 100 workers are putting together “The Embrace,” a sculpture memorializing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King. King Boston, the nonprofit behind “The Embrace,” is in Walla Walla this…

We’re getting an exclusive, under-construction look at what could be the most significant public art project in Boston history.

A new memorial to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is coming next year to Boston Common.

An official groundbreaking ceremony will be held in Boston Wednesday for a monument to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

An official groundbreaking ceremony was held in Boston Wednesday for a monument to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. The organization King Boston has been working to install “The Embrace” by artist Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group on the historic Boston Common for years. Fittingly, the groundbreaking was on Wednesday, on Coretta Scott King’s...

In the book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” Martin Luther King Jr. called for “a revolution of values” that would help heal American society. In 2022, he would be disappointed that “we didn’t heed his message,” says his daughter Bernice King, a minister and attorney. King joined LX News to talk more about the direction the...

A new program plans to give Black women in Georgia up to $850 in guaranteed income per month. Similar experiments are also taking place across the country.

Lerone Martin has studied pretty much all there is to study, and read almost all there is to read, about the late Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin said the U.S. is still dealing with issues today that King spoke about more than 50 years ago. “He was always committed to making sure we end the plagues that he called the...

In tonight’s Daily Debrief, fans pay tribute to Hollywood legend Betty White on what would have been her 100th birthday. Plus, whipping winds fan the flames of a motel fire in Salisbury. And, Boston honors the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday.

The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is honoring him on Monday by leading a voting rights march in Washington D.C. Vote.org CEO Andrea Hailey makes the case that voting rights is this generation’s civil rights issue.

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. crossed over D.C.’s new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Monday as the world honors King’s life and legacy.

Martin Luther King said whatever affects one, affects all. The Covid crisis makes this clear in new ways, as a new generation of Black community leaders rises.

The nation and the Boston community will honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with a series of events.

Faith leaders and activists met Sunday outside Faneuil Hall to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and call for voting rights reform.