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Dexter Scott King, Son of Dr. King, Dead at 62

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Dexter Scott King, Son of Dr. King, Dead at 62

Dexter Scott King, the youngest son of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 62 years old.

Dexter King died in California on Sunday after a battle with prostate cancer.

“Words cannot express the heartbreak,” said the Rev. Bernice King. “I’m praying for strength to get through this very difficult time.”

Martin Luther King III added, “The sudden shock is devastating. It is hard to have the right words at a moment like this. We ask for your prayers at this time for the entire King family.”

According to NBC, during King’s life he served as the chairman of the King Center, which managed the legacy and intellectual property of his family’s legacy. He also was the president of the King estate.

“He was the family member delegated to take on the mantle of continuing the precedent his father set by legally protecting his work,” the King Center said in a statement. “He devoted his lift to the continued perpetuation of his father’s legacy and the protection of the intellectual property his father left behind.”

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Chris Rock to Team with Steven Spielberg to Create Biopic on Dr. King

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Chris Rock and Steven Spielberg are teaming up for a biopic on the life of American icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

According to Variety, Chris Rock will direct and produce the film, Steven Spielberg will fill the role of executive producer. Universal Pictures supports the film and will pull from the King: A Life biography created by Jonathan Eig. The book is considered to be the “definitive biography” of the civil rights icon, bringing FBI information and interviews to create a “courageous but emotionally troubled individual who demanded peaceful protest while grappling with his own frailties and a government that hunted him.”

There isn’t currently a date set for the film.

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Coretta Scott King’s Cousin Blasts New Sculpture Honoring Dr. King: ‘It Looks Like a Penis’

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There has been a lot of criticism over the new $10 million sculpture designed to honor Martin Luther King Jr. The latest comes from Dr. King’s cousin by marriage, Coretta Scott King’s cousin Seneca Scott who stated the new piece of art “looked like a penis.”

Scott is a former mayoral candidate for the city of Oakland, California. Once he saw the work that was unveiled in Boston, she declared it was insulting to Dr. King’s family, according to CNN.

The artwork, titled “The Embrace,” is supposed to mirror a moment in which Dr. King hugs Corretta Scott King after finding out he won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Scott agreed that you could see the vision from all angles, but at a certain angle “it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.”

Scott doubled down on the sentiment when speaking with compactmag.com, stating it looks “like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis.”

But Scott isn’t the only critic of the artwork. People have chimed in their options on Twitter all week. Many of them are not flattering.

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