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On August 28, 2017, King marched with Al Sharpton in Washington D.C. for the Ministers March for Justice leading over 3,000 ministers to protest the policies of President Donald J. Trump . King was under major controversy when he agreed to meet with Trump in January 2017. [43]
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In May 2006, Martin Luther King III married longtime girlfriend Arndrea Waters. [44] On May 25, 2008, the couple had a daughter, Yolanda Renee King , the first and only grandchild of Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King. She was named after her aunt, Yolanda King, who had died of a heart condition at age 51 in Santa Monica, California, the previous year. [44] Yolanda Renee appeared with her family at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington celebration, where President Obama and various leaders and other notable persons were charmed by her presence. Yolanda Renee helped her family ring a bell that once hung in Birmingham's 16th St. Baptist Church, which had been bombed 18 days after the original March On Washington, killing four young girls. [45] At age nine Yolanda Renee King spoke at the March For Our Lives demonstration in Washington, D.C.

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