April 27th, 2021
The following is an excerpt from our partner’s press release.
Boston, MA (April 27, 2021): On the anniversary of Coretta Scott King’s birth, April 27, 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. The grant caps off the $9-million effort by King Boston to pay for the memorial’s construction and the surrounding “Freedom Plaza,”