49th Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. at BU
BOSTON (AP) — The life of Martin Luther King Jr. is being honored in Boston and by Boston University, his alma mater, with a day of celebration. Two demonstrations were also planned in the city against police brutality on the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader. NBC Boston reports it’s the university’s 49th commemoration of King, who earned his doctorate in systematic theology at the school. BU says the event celebrates “the contributions of the Rev. Dr. King and civil rights leader, activist, and author Coretta Scott King to the Greater Boston community.”