A commemoration of Martin Luther King’s historic 1965 march from Roxbury to Boston Common, to support Black Bostonians beset by discrimination in education, housing and just life today gave participants a chance to vow to continue the struggle against a regime that wants to bring all that back.
The 60th-anniversary rally was one of several events that brought people to the Common today.
Standing where King addressed marchers from the Parkman Bandstand, speakers, who included the Rev. Willie Bodrick, pastor of Roxbury’s Twelfth Baptist Church – King’s home church when he attended BU – and US Rep. Ayanna Pressley praised the elders who marched with King on April 23, 1965 – and said now it is the community’s time to once again battle against what Pressley said was the return of Jim Crow by a white-supremacist administration and a co-opted Supreme Court that is doing everything it can to rip away people’s rights, to erase Black history, to ruin people’s lives…