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  The formidable CEO of the King Center is scheduled to hold a press conference Thursday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in response to a lawsuit filed by her siblings. Her press officer told theGrio that King is expected to read from a prepared statement expressing her opposition then will field questions from reporters. It comes following a complaint […]

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On January 20, as we observed my father’s 85th birthday and The King Holiday, my brothers, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King, III, notified me that they want to sell to a private buyer our father’s most prized possessions, his Nobel Peace Prize Medal and his personal Bible which was used by President Barak Obama as he was […]

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  When FOX 5 News showed Dr. Bernice King images of her father being used in club and event promotions, she shook her head in disbelief. Images being circulated online depict her father, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, in promotions allegedly for ‘twerk’ parties for a teen club in Michigan. FOX 5 was unable […]

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  As our country engages in serious discourse over violence and gun control, Bernice King reminds us of her father’s message 45 years later. The youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. believes that her father’s platform against violence is just as essential today as it was during the civil rights movement. King and other Christian leaders said […]