Posted Jul 11th 2008 10:42AM by TMZ Staff
His dream was that one day his children would be judged by the content of their character. Now, two of Martin Luther King, Jr's children say the character of one of their siblings sucks.
Bernice King and Martin Luther King III are suing Dexter King, alleging he took "substantial funds" from the Estate of Coretta Scott King and put them in his personal piggy bank for his own use. They're crying fraud.
Bernice and Martin III have demanded a jury trial in Fulton County, Georgia.
Coretta died in 2006. The Kings had four children. Yolanda died last year. So the three surviving kids are fighting over money.
By the way, Bernice and Martin III are being repped by Johnny Cochran's law firm. The late J.C. was also one of the biggest civil rights forces in the U.S. of A.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
Tags: Bernice King, BerniceKing, Dexter King, DexterKing, Martin Luther King, MartinLutherKing
Posted Jan 25th 2006 12:12PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Rev. Al Sharpton has asked for an apology from Cartoon Network for an episode of edgy animated series "The Boondocks" that shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. saying the n-word.
"Cartoon Network must apologize and also commit to pulling episodes that desecrate black historic figures," Sharpton, a civil-rights activist and former Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement Tuesday.
"We are totally offended by the continuous use of the n-word in (cartoonist Aaron) McGruder's show."
The episode, "The Return of the King," aired Jan. 15, the day before the national holiday honoring the slain civil-rights leader. It shows King emerging from a coma and using the n-word in an angry speech venting his frustration toward sexually explicit hip-hop videos, among other things.
In the episode, King is branded a traitor and terrorist sympathizer for his "turn-the-other cheek" philosophy of nonviolence in response to post-Sept. 11 retaliation. Exhausted, he moves to Canada, but his speech provokes a second civil-rights revolution.
Cartoon Network released a statement Tuesday saying the episode is a tribute to King and "in no way was meant to offend or `desecrate"' his name.
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Filed under: TV, The Biz
Tags: al sharpton, AlSharpton, Cartoon Network, CartoonNetwork, Martin Luther King, MartinLutherKing, MLK
