A massive bronze sculpture honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was officially unveiled on the Boston Common on Friday.
The work, titled “The Embrace,” was created by Washington state conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. It is his interpretation of a photo of the two taken on the day King learned he’d won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
The $10 million sculpture stands 20 feet tall and is 40 feet wide, according to WCVB-TV.
The city of Boston is significant because that is where King met his future wife. King was studying for his doctorate at Boston University and Coretta Scott was attending the New England Conservatory, WCVB reported: “One of the Kings’ first dates was on the Common, and the Parkman Bandstand was the final location of the 1965 Freedom Rally.”
Images of the piece taken from different angles and the photograph it is based on can be viewed in the tweets below.
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BREAKING: The bronze sculpture called “The Embrace” honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has just been unveiled on the Boston Common #7news #MLKWeekend #MLKDay2023 pic.twitter.com/IckphP15FL
— Amaka Ubaka (@AmakaUbakaTV) January 13, 2023
Please read my other tweets about the sculpture—but here is another angle and the photo of the two “The Embrace” is based on. It’s when MLK Jr. found out he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. pic.twitter.com/Q7Vyk7OPKK
— Amaka Ubaka (@AmakaUbakaTV) January 14, 2023
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Many were taken aback by the sculpture’s remarkable resemblance to a male sex organ.
One of the most outspoken critics was Coretta King’s cousin, Seneca Scott, who told the New York Post on Sunday, “The mainstream media … was reporting on it like it was all beautiful, ’cause they were told they had to say that.”
“But then when it came out, a little boy pointed out — ‘That’s a penis!’ and everyone was like, ‘Yo, that’s a big old dong,…
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