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The elder son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. As of , he is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia. His mother had reservations about naming him after his famous father, "realizing the burdens it can create for the child," [ 2 ] but King Jr. King's birth occurred as his father was speaking to members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and he announced his son's name after being told of the birth.

They were raised in Vine City , an urban neighborhood in Atlanta , Georgia.

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When he was eight years old and only in the third grade, he began to endure racial comments and insults from a white boy in his class, who also happened to like to draw. When he approached the boy and complimented him on a drawing of his, the harassment ceased. King was ten years old when his father was assassinated. Years prior to his father's death, Harry Belafonte set up a trust fund for King and his siblings.

King received his B. King lived his teen years with his mother in their home in Atlanta's Vine City neighborhood. On June 26, , King was arrested, along with his mother and his sister Bernice, while taking part in an anti-apartheid protest at the Embassy of South Africa in Washington, D. On June 9, , he announced his candidacy for the Fulton County Commission , becoming the first of his father's immediate family to become directly involved in politics.

King was defeated in a special election for the chairmanship in to Republican State Representative Mitch Skandalakis by 55, votes Alongside Kerry Kennedy , King opposed the death penalty in , stating "If we believed in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, most of us would be without eyes and without teeth". King remains a commissioner in the company as of In King urged Texas to grant a reprieve to death row inmate Rodney Reed [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and in he urged Alabama to stop the execution of Nathaniel Woods.