Rep. Ayanna Pressley stayed in her district for Inauguration Day, “choosing community over chaos” during an event to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in Roxbury Monday. Pressley announced earlier this month her intention to boycott the Inauguration ...

At a Martin Luther King Day community event in Roxbury, Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks to 7 year old Zola White as her mother Ivory looks on. While Pressley was the first in the Massachusetts congressional delegation to announce that she’d be skipping the inauguration, Senator Edward Markey and Representative Bill Keating also opted out.

"I'll be in town with my constituents honoring Dr. King's legacy," Rep. Ayanna Pressley said in a statement. "I don't think being there does that."

But this year, America faces a profound and painful contradiction: As we mark the MLK holiday, a white supremacist will retake the highest office in the land, poised to inflict more hurt and harm on the vibrant yet vulnerable communities I was elected to represent.

Ayanna Pressley, the U.S. rep. for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the legacy of the civil rights leader is being celebrated in Massachusetts. Here is a list of events honoring Dr. King in Boston.

For only the third time since President Ronald Reagan declared Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday in 1983, the presidential inauguration and MLK Day will fall on the same day, the other two presidents were Bill Clinton (1997) and Barack Obama (2013).

From breakfasts, to food drives, to service projects, Massachusetts communities this weekend will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration falling on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, members of the Black community in Boston said the coincidence generates some complicated feelings for them.

As Martin Luther King Jr. Day lands on Inauguration Day this year, Boston area organizations and leaders are planning a slew of activities to mark the holiday. The day will kick off at the Omni Seaport Hotel in Boston with the 55th Annual Martin Luther King Jr.

Inside the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury on Monday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) asked an audience of dozens if Boston will descend into chaos or “beloved community,” quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Aiken universities came together to celebrate the legacy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made to public service through their annual community celebration on Sunday.