Jan 13, 2023 · “The Embrace,” a massive bronze piece by Hank Willis Thomas, depicts a historic moment after Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

In 2017, the Boston Foundation and Embrace Boston (formerly King Boston), an organization dedicated to establishing a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston, put out a call for proposals for a public artwork in honor of King.

Jan 22, 2019 · Boston may have influenced the life of Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., both personally and professionally as much as any city in America.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King met in Boston in 1952. The Embrace is a memorial to their love and leadership. Inspired by a photograph of the Kings embracing, it reflects the power of collective action, the role of women in the freedom movement, and the forging of solidarity out of mutual empathy and vulnerability.

Jan 18, 2023 · The Embrace is a bronze figural abstraction based on a photo of an embrace between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Jan 20, 2025 · We gathered for the 55th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast under the theme “ Freedom Isn’t Free.” We were blessed to have as our keynote speaker professor, author, and activist Angela Davis. As part of the Annual Breakfast, we recognized the contributions of community leaders.

Nov 1, 2022 · Martin Luther King Jr. would return to Boston a few times between 1955 and 1965. However, when he returned in 1965, it came a month after the events of Selma. On April 22, 1965, he appeared before a joint legislative session at the Massachusetts State House.

Jan 9, 2024 · The Embrace memorial sculpture on Boston Common was unveiled last year in honor of the legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, and the many civil rights leaders who worked alongside them in Boston.

Jan 19, 2015 · Fourteen years later and a month after leading the Selma marches, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., forged his own freedom trail in Boston. He led 22,000 civil rights marchers from a playground in Roxbury down Columbus Avenue to the Boston Common.

Jan 24, 2025 · The Martin Luther King, Jr. Reading Room exhibition provides an intimate view of Dr. King’s time at the University, and his leadership of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement for racial equality in the United States through photographs, handwritten letters and other materials in his papers. King earned his PhD in systematic theology from ...