Martin Luther King III Founds New Charity

Martin Luther King III has established a new nonprofit organization to continue his father’s work, a move that signals he has broken from the family charity he once ran, reports the Associated Press.

Mr. King said his group, Realizing the Dream, in Atlanta, will focus on training youth leaders and community economic development, and will extend work he has done around the country.

The organization will be run separately from the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which Coretta Scott King founded after her husband’s assassination in 1968. Ms. King died last year.

The younger Mr. King was president of the King Center in 2004 but was ousted from the position by a board of directors that included his brother, Dexter, over disagreements about the direction of the organization.

At the time, Martin Luther King III had contemplated selling the center to the National Park Service. In the future, he says, he hopes his new group and the King Center can be reunited under common leadership.

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