Boston community leaders are contemplating where the city stands, 49 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Here are some who are sharing their thoughts with the Boston Herald on Martin Luther King Day:
“We are the city where Martin Luther King became Dr. King. From Boston, a tremendous amount of work was done to fight segregation, discrimination and racial injustice. We’ve come a long way since the ’60s when Dr. King led a march from Roxbury to the Common to bring attention to the fact that conditions in Boston were too similar to conditions in the deep South. … But we have a tremendous amount of work to do to make sure that legal accomplishments of the Civil Rights era trickle down and improve the day-to-day experience of people of color in Boston and beyond,” said Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.