Yolanda King dies.

Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who melded her father’s message of racial equality and nonviolence with her own calling as an actor and a motivational speaker, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 51.

Yolanda King was an activist, actor, writer and tremendous activist for racial diversity.
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