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Speaker 1: Roxbury's Twelfth Baptist Church has been around for almost as

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Speaker 1: long as the nation itself, and now it's being honored

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Speaker 1: for its role in the city and the nation. The

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Speaker 1: city unveiled the new every one two fifty historical marker

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Speaker 1: for the church. Mayor Michelle wou says, it's important places

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Speaker 1: like this are celebrated.

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Speaker 2: What we're here to do today is to make sure

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Speaker 2: that as you're going about your daily walk, not a

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Speaker 2: single person will miss the reminder of the history that

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Speaker 2: lives right here in this community.

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Speaker 1: The church is a famous stop on the Underground Railroad

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Speaker 1: thanks to the work of Reverend Leonard Grimes. The marker

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Speaker 1: also comes with its home, Warren Square being renamed to

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Speaker 1: Twelfth Baptist Church Square, shedding the name of slaveholder Joseph Warren,

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Speaker 1: who pastor Reverend Willie Bondrick says.

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Speaker 3: Flex the contradictions of the Revolutionary era.

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Speaker 4: Those who proclaimed liberty while also being entangled in slavery

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Speaker 4: from Roxbury.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio