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.

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.

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).

At Columbus' MLK Day event, speakers decried Donald Trump for fermenting hate and called on people to allow MLK "to start speaking through us."

Pressley announced her intention to boycott President Donald Trump's second inauguration earlier this month. The post Pressley celebrates MLK Day in Roxbury during Trump’s inauguration appeared first on Boston.

On the day of Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration, Michelle Obama is setting her sights elsewhere. Here’s what she’s up to outside of Washington D.C. Though Barack Obama was in attendance for the inauguration,