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."

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who represents Massachusetts’ 7th District, announced that she will not be attending the inauguration next week. She joined GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath to share more about that decision and how she’s preparing for a second Trump administration. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.

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

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).

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.

Three days before Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the start of the second Trump administration, activists and local officials drew hope from the late civil rights leader. "Democracy is not a spectator sport,

Davis tells a crowd celebrating MLK Day in Boston, "Trump may have won the November election, but the movement continues.”

Chilly weather and 11-mph winds kept many Mesa County residents indoors yesterday, but it did not deter more than 50 people from gathering out front of Grand Junction City Hall.

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.

Pressley announced earlier this month her intention to boycott the Inauguration Ceremony in Washington and instead host a “Day of Beloved Community” in Nubian Square. She also spoke at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast earlier Monday morning, where Sen. Ed Markey also spoke in lieu of attending President Donald Trump’s inauguration.