Fast forward to 2023. A questionable sculpture dubbed The Embrace, created by Hank Willis Thomas, made its way to Boston Common, this peculiar tribute to Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King. Critics see an awkward hug, others phallic, some even deeming it pornographic. The sculpture, titled The Embrace, was designed to symbolize the embrace shared by MLK and Coretta after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Positioned within the 1965 Freedom Plaza, a plaza honorifying Boston's civil rights leaders from the 1950s to the 1970s, The Embrace has faced an onslaught of criticism, some deeming it inappropriate or jarringly abrasive.
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