At a Martin Luther King Day community event in Roxbury, Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks to 7 year old Zola White as her mother Ivory looks on. While Pressley was the first in the Massachusetts congressional delegation to announce that she’d be skipping the inauguration, Senator Edward Markey and Representative Bill Keating also opted out.

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the legacy of the civil rights leader is being celebrated in Massachusetts. Here is a list of events honoring Dr. King in Boston.

As Martin Luther King Jr. Day lands on Inauguration Day this year, Boston area organizations and leaders are planning a slew of activities to mark the holiday. The day will kick off at the Omni Seaport Hotel in Boston with the 55th Annual Martin Luther King Jr.

Ayanna Pressley, the U.S. rep. for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

For only the third time since President Ronald Reagan declared Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday in 1983, the presidential inauguration and MLK Day will fall on the same day, the other two presidents were Bill Clinton (1997) and Barack Obama (2013).

Davis tells a crowd celebrating MLK Day in Boston, "Trump may have won the November election, but the movement continues.”

From breakfasts, to food drives, to service projects, Massachusetts communities this weekend will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the nation.

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes waves at the 2025 presidential inauguration, with a nod to her heritage.

There was a sense of perseverance on the grounds of the King Center Monday, as the King federal holiday fell on Inauguration Day.