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Remembering Boston's Mel King

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Last Tuesday, the city lost a giant. Activist, former politician and proud son of the South End, Mel King, died at the age of 94. King fought for working class people in the streets and on Beacon Hill, and he was the first Black candidate to make it to the general election in a race to be Boston’s mayor.

Local writer and historian Dart Adams joins The Common to remember Mel King, and for a look at his ongoing legacy.

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