Today, we celebrate the struggles of the past and present and top it off with art, because art is why we endure. 

Let’s make a sandwich of it and start with the struggle of the past, because it is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s actual birthday today, and the rights he pursued in his life loom large right now. Starting today, there’s a whole week of activities happening throughout the city to honor those ideals he pursued. We’ll speak with MLK Family Services president Shannon Rudder about this long lasting celebration. 

Then we’ll head to Amherst where we’re putting cameras in the imagination of our littles at the Eric Carle Museum. Saturday sees the official opening of the exhibit Click, which looks at the ways photography has been used in children’s books for over 100 years. We’ll explore this new exhibit and learn about their amazing film festival for bigger and littler kids with curation staffer Isabel Ruiz Cano.

And our first McGoverning of 2026 with congressman Jim McGovern only has a few topics to cover, like the enduring overreach of the executive Branch, especially with regards to ICE, and what options that leaves his branch of legislature, the mounting pressures of Venezuela, Iran, and Greenland, his crusade against hunger and more.