A new monument honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was unveiled in Boston Friday, ahead of Monday's national holiday honoring the civil rights icon.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was unveiled in Boston Friday, ahead of Monday's national holiday honoring the civil rights icon.," represents the hug between Dr. King and Coretta after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Dr. King met his wife Coretta in Boston in the 1950s while he was a doctoral theology student at Boston University and she was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Paul English, an entrepreneur, spearheaded and invested in the Embrace project in 2017. The project's co-chair, Rev. Liz Walker, consulted creators, artists and educators in order to find an artist and design for the structure.
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