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.
Growing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza manifested again around Boston on Thursday, with protesters blocking the Boston University Bridge through the morning and local Black pastors gathering to call for an end to the bloodshed.