Embrace Boston has unveiled The Embrace, a massive 45,000-pound, 20-foot-high and 40-foot-wide bronze sculpture crafted by artist Hank Willis Thomas and revered design firm MASS Design Group. The ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue “The Embrace” at the Boston Common. The statue was unveiled on Jan. 13 in Boston Common. ZIYU (JULIAN) ZHU/DFP STAFF “The Embrace,” a statue commemorating ...

History was made on the Boston Common Friday as The Embrace monument was unveiled, honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and the love they shared with the world.

Annual tributes and commemorations of the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began nationwide Friday and included the unveiling of a statue in Boston. The 20-foot-high bronze sculpture ...

A detail of the 20-foot-high bronze sculpture The Embrace, shows a hand with a bracelet, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in the Boston Common, in Boston. The sculpture, a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

I was proud to attend the unveiling of “The Embrace,” the monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, on Friday afternoon (“A lasting embrace: Unveiling of tribute to Kings brings ...

Maybe this too is part of the dream. To see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s only granddaughter, Yolanda Renee King, inspire crowds on Boston Common as he once did and call for love above all else. To see ...

BOSTON – Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and there are plenty of ways to celebrate his life and legacy in Boston. Embrace Boston's executive director, Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries, shared how the ...

The memorial rejects the idea that a single person — usually a man, almost always white — can claim the mantle of greatness alone A monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Embrace ...

If you’ve walked through the Boston Common recently, you may have noticed the ongoing construction. A few months from now, instead of steam shovels and sand piles, there will be a 20-foot high, ...