Prince Hall Freemasonry stands as a powerful symbol of what perseverance, unity and faith in Masonic principles can achieve
(by Trajan Warren, Avery Bleichfeld | Bay State Banner, GBH, June 11, 2025)
On Memorial Day, dozens of men of color wearing tuxedos, jeweled collars and white aprons, marched through the North End’s Copp’s Hill Cemetery.
The march ended at one of the grandest monuments in the hallowed ground — a broken black column, about the size of a streetlamp, etched with the name “Prince Hall.”
The men were Masons of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and they had come to commemorate Hall, their founder and Masonic father who started the organization 250 years ago.
“He used Freemasonry as a tool or a vehicle to advance people of color and advance the community that he was living in at…
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