I do see them for the 4th of July, Memorial Day and Patriots Day but not for a birthday.
Everything here is closed today except the bars and liquor stores.
There are festivities planned here today to celebrate MLK's birthday.
There was a huge turnout for a breakfast today here, in his honor.
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Boston to build Martin Luther King statuehttp://wbz.com/pages/1483473.php?Posted: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 4:24PM
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BOSTON (WBZ Newsroom) --
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, will be honored officially in Boston
with a statue to be built following a fund-raising campaign, Mayor Thomas Menino announced Tuesday during
the city's annual ceremony commemorating the civil rights leader's birthday.
The city's annual celebration of Martin Luther King's life was held at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury.
King and his wife belonged to the congregation in the 1950s when they lived in Boston while he attended
Boston University Divinity School.
Their son, Martin Luther King III, told the gathering that he is happy his parents will be honored in this way in
a city that once was their home.
A committee will be formed to seek donations and select a location for the statue, Menino said.
Although under the federal Monday-holiday law King's birthday will be marked nationwide on Monday,
Boston traditionally holds its commemoration on his actual birth date, Jan. 15.King, assassinated in 1968, would have turned 79 years old on Tuesday.
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Hundreds turn out for 38th annual M.L.K. breakfasthttp://wbz.com/Hundreds-turn-out-for-38th-annual-M-L-K--breakfast/1514238Posted: Monday, 21 January 2008 10:48AM
It was quite the turnout this morning in South Boston, where hundreds of people
turned out for the 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast.
Gov. Deval Patrick, the nation's only African-American governor was one of the
featured speakers. He spoke about Dr. King's legacy of service.
Other speakers included Boston Mayor Tom Menino, Attorney General Martha Coakley
and State Sen. Diane Wilkerson.
The keynote speaker was Johnny Ford, Mayor of Tuskeegee, Alabama.