There have been conversations with Dexter. We've had a lot of meetings. But it is difficult to work when one party ceases to listen and keeps going with his plans.
"Bernice Albertine King" is an American minister best known as the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was only five years old when her father was killed. In her adolescence, King chose to work towards becoming a minister after having a breakdown from watching a documentary about her father. King was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations. Twenty years after her father died, she preached her trial sermon. Inspired by her parents' activism, she was arrested multiple times during her early adulthood.
King participated in a march against same sex-marriage in 2004. Her mother suffered a stroke the following year and after she died in January 2006, King delivered the eulogy at her funeral. A turning point in King's life, King experienced conflict within her family when her sister Yolanda King and brother Dexter Scott King supported the sale of the King Center. After her sister died in 2007, she delivered the eulogy for her as well. She supported the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama and called his nomination part of her father's dream.
More Bernice King on Wikipedia.Prior to my mother's stroke, Martin and I had a conversation with her. She felt at some point, [the center] may in fact end up with the government, but she never envisioned it in her lifetime.
She's doing pretty good. She's making one step at a time in this process.
The old has passed away. There is a new order that is emerging.
She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go back into her rest. I was actually in the other bed when she took her last four breaths.
[A week ago, King was taken to Piedmont when her daughter Yolanda King noticed she had stopped speaking.] She's doing pretty good. She's making one step at a time, ... This is a temporary situation, but it's not a permanent condition.
She's not paralyzed. The right side is just weak.
She knocked on doors, helped raise funds and did whatever needed to be done to make sure the center was built. My brother Martin and I, as well as the rest of my family and the King Center Board, have both a personal and moral responsibility to carry forth the heart and spirit of my mother's vision and the historic legacy she wishes to pass on to future generations.
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