FEUDING heirs of the Rev Martin Luther King have reached an agreement over control of the late civil rights leader’s estate, ending a year-long legal battle.

Two of murdered civil rights champion Martin Luther King’s children have been sued by the institution their mother founded, in the latest chapter in a family drama that has become increasingly more public in recent years.

Hundreds gathered to mourn Yolanda “Yoki” Denise King, the eldest daughter of the American civil rights campaigner Rev Martin Luther King Jr.