Capehart: The Shame of Alveda King

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart shames Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece Alveda King as one of the members of the family who does “things that leave you in ‘oh no (s)he didn't’ disbelief.”

This weekend King spoke at Glenn Beck’s Restoring America rally, frequently quoting from her uncle’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which he “immortalized on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial 47 years earlier to the day,” Capehart notes.

“Dr. King’s legacy is precious,” Capehart writes. “Alveda King on Saturday besmirched it.”

Read the full column here.