Martin Luther King's children sued

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.

In the lawsuit, Dexter King says his siblings have established foundations that compete with The King Centre and have used the centre for personal gain.

It claims the foundations conflict with their duties on the centre’s board of directors, on which all three children serve.

Dexter King has been chairman and chief operating officer of The King Centre for Nonviolent Change since July 2004.

Their late mother, Coretta Scott King, founded The King Centre in the basement of her home shortly after her husband’s assassination in 1968.