A coalition of several community groups – including Everyone 250, Embrace Boston, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast, the Boston Children’s Chorus and Project 351 – have come together to present the MLK Boston Beloved Community Weekend, a slew of events kicking off on Jan. 16.

Embrace Boston President and Hyde Park resident Imari Paris Jeffries said the weekend will include more than a dozen events, culminating on this Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He said the theme of this year’s celebration is that the Beloved Community King was seeking must always be worked for.

“Dr. King taught us that a beloved community is a discipline, not a destination,” said Jeffries. “This weekend shows what it looks like when a city chooses to build that community in public together, across differences, and without fear. Boston is stepping forward to tell the whole truth about who we are, to disrupt the narratives that divide us, and to model the kind of collective courage the country needs right now.”

Jeffries said his time in Hyde Park has helped shape his activism at Embrace Boston, an organization which aims to connect, educate, and energize within our communities and across traditional borders to cultivate the conditions necessary for racial and economic justice in Boston.

“It [Hyde Park] really is a center of political activism in the city,” he said. “There are so many civic leaders, municipal leaders and community leaders who live in our neighborhood. A lot of the energy and intellectual capacity of the city come from our neighborhood.”

Jeffries pointed to Hyde Park’s historical importance in the abolitionist movement as well, being the place where the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts trained before shipping off to serve in the Civil War.

“We have a lot of history, right?” he said. “We’re on the eve of Black History Month next month, and as a person whose organization is focused on monuments and memorials, being in a place with one of the most important sites in the city for Black history? It means a lot to me as a Black civic leader in this town.”

Jeffries also pointed to the sixth annual Hyde Park Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation and Community Builder Awards program taking place on Jan. 19 at 1:30 p.m. in a virtual format.

“People can celebrate at events throughout the city, but you can also celebrate in your own neighborhood, like ours,” he said.

To register for the Hyde Park awards, go to https://tinyurl.com/mr3xmusb

And there is a slew of things to do this weekend. Events starting this Friday include the MLK Community Breakfast at 7 a.m. at the Roxbury YMCA; RALLY: Community over Chaos at the Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common at 12 p.m.; the Franklin Cummings Tech Community Open House at 2 p.m.; the Shabbat Tzedek at the Temple Israel at 6 p.m.; and performances of Stokely and Martin (by Najee Brown) throughout the weekend.

Then Project 351 is hosting Revolution of Love: Annual Launch & Service Day at 11 a.m. at Faneuil Hall on Saturday; the Project Step MLK Concert at the New England Conservatory at 3 p.m. on Sunday; and the Embrace Boston Family & Friends gathering at 8 p.m. on Sunday. On MLK Day proper, the 56th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast will kick off at the Westin Copley Place at 9 a.m.; followed by the MLK Day of Service at the Boston Latin School at 10 a.m.; the Celebration in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras at 1 p.m. at Faneuil Hall; with the day ending with the Where Conscience Walked: 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Concert at Boston Symphony Hall at 4 p.m.

For a complete list of events and tickets, go to https://www.mlkboston.com