Dr. Bernice King Gets Real About Being the Daughter of Civil Rights Icons

Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., comforts her youngest daughter Bernice, 5, during services in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, April 9, 1968.

This article is part of The Root Institute 2023 pre-event coverage.

The responsibility of upholding the legacy of the two most celebrated civil rights icons in our nation’s history is no small feat. But then, Dr. Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, isn’t your average person.

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However, that doesn’t mean she’s prepared to have the same conversations over and over again for the rest of her life. “I’ve been in many rooms since I was a teenager where we were talking about the problems of the world. And some of the same conversations we’re having today, we’ve had when I was a teenager,” she says. “So I’m at a place now where I don’t want to be in that room anymore. I want to be in the room where people are really talking about solutions.”

In part three of our multi-part conversation with Dr. King, we finally talk about solutions. You can check out part one here.

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