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King Family in Dispute Over Atlanta Center [4min]

There is dispute at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. The board of directors has proposed selling several buildings that make up the center to the National Park Service. Members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s family are divided over the sale.
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