Hundreds of people hold a rally at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday, April 26, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which featured ...

BOSTON — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated school ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is completely surrounded as he leads a civil rights march in Boston, April 23, 1965, en route to historic Boston Common where he will address a crowd. (AP Photo, file) ...

Doreen Wade from Cambridge raises her fist in the air at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common which ...