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A photo of The Embrace sculpture. The sculpture depicts a group of golden hands joining together.
March 19, 2021
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The Embrace

The design for The Embrace, a towering bronze sculpture on the Boston Common commemorating the partnership between Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59), and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who met while King was studying at BU, was approved by the Boston Arts Commission Wednesday. The 22-foot-high bronze sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas was chosen from five finalists by the nonprofit King Boston. Photo by Hank Willis Thomas Studio/MASS Design Group

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  1. BU should be proud to be involved. ‘The Embrace’ is a beautiful art and an appropriate reminder of the tremendous civil rights achievements made and the distance to go. MLK Jr’s close confidant, Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, wrote in 2015, and it is poignant today with our University’s investment in the Center for Anti Racist Research.
    “Today, too many ‘remedies’ — such as Critical Race Theory, the increasingly fashionable post-Marxist/postmodernist approach that analyzes society as institutional group power structures rather than on a spiritual or one-to-one human level — are taking us in the wrong direction: separating even elementary school children into explicit racial groups, and emphasizing differences instead of similarities. 

    “The answer is to go deeper than race, deeper than wealth, deeper than ethnic identity, deeper than gender. To teach ourselves to comprehend each person, not as a symbol of a group, but as a unique and special individual within a common context of shared humanity. To go to that fundamental place where we are all simply mortal creatures, seeking to create order, beauty, family, and connection to the world that — on its own — seems to bend too often towards randomness and entropy.“

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