April 27th, 2021
On the anniversary of Coretta Scott King’s birth, April 27, 2021, the Trustees of the Yawkey Foundation provided a $1 million capstone gift to King Boston that will go toward “The Embrace,” a 22-foot-high memorial consisting of four intertwined bronze arms intended to inspire the social justice values that Dr. King and Coretta Scott King espoused. This gift completes the $9-million funding needed for the building of “The Embrace” which is one piece of King Boston’s plan for racial and economic justice and part of an ongoing $15-million campaign that will pay for the founding of the King Center for Economic Justice, which supports action-oriented solutions to end economic and social disparities.