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Article: Day renews MLK's legacy - Bostonians honor spirit of slain civil rights leader.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 16, 2001
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The spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive and well across Massachusetts yesterday as "Dreamers" gathered to commemorate his memory and push his legacy.
"When we honor Martin Luther King, we honor those Africans that were kidnapped from their families, those stuffed in the under-decks of those miserable ships," Bishop Charles E. Blake, the First Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ of Los Angeles, said during a Faneuil Hall tribute.
Numerous functions were held throughout Boston, including the traditional MLK Breakfast at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. That event reflected King's commitment to pushing civil rights in the political ...