Boston breaks ground on a Martin Luther King memorial of its own
More than seven decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived, studied and preached in Boston, the city will soon have a memorial honoring him and his wife Coretta Scott King, who met each other there.
While countless monuments around the nation already memorialize King for his civil rights work, the Boston structure is meant as a tribute to both he and Coretta Scott King. It's intended to be a "symbol of love" as much as one of "equity, inclusion, belonging and justice," says Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of King Boston, the nonprofit behind the project.
The 22-foot-tall bronze sculpture of the couple's arms intertwined, was inspired by a photo of the two hugging after King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
