Join the African American Heritage and Culture Center in welcoming the Williston Alumni Community Choir (WACC) to New Bern’s St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church, Friday, April 26, at 6:30 pm.
Dozens gathered Sunday inside Roxbury’s historic Twelfth Baptist Church to celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with music and prayer while reflecting on the civil rights leader’s time in Boston, as well as the city’s place in the historic struggle for racial equity.
A group of people is hoping to procure a headstone for the unmarked grave of Mary Louise Powell, who introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to his future wife, Coretta Scott, in Boston in 1952.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be celebrated on Jan. 15 this year and organizations in and around Boston are offering plenty of ways for residents to honor the late civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King.