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On MLK holiday in Boston, renewed calls for defending civil rights
By Jeremy C. Fox and John Hilliard Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2021, 7:22 p.m.
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Darrell Jones, left, and Sean Ellis, who both served time after being wrongly convicted for murder, stood next to Monica Cannon Grant, founder of Violence In Boston, as they spoke to a crowd who gathered on MLK Day outside of Madison Park Vocational High School.Erin Clark / Globe Staff
Amid a pandemic and a national reckoning on race, the rise of white supremacy and the repercussions from a historic attack on democracy, Martin Luther King Jr.âs life was celebrated Monday as hundreds demonstrated in Boston to demand justice and protection of civil rights.
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