Bernice King recalls day of MLK’s speech

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Rev. Bernice King opened the celebration of her father’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech Wednesday with an interfaith service in Washington.

King said that her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is often remembered as a freedom fighter for equal rights and human rights. But she said he was most importantly a man of faith. She says he was a prophet and “faith leader” and it was “the spirit of God that infused that movement.”

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