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METSAMOR, Armenia — As the niece of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., evangelist, gospel singer and pro-life advocate Alveda King has long developed a reputation for sharing the joy and love of Christ with almost everyone she comes into contact with.
Whether it’s breaking out in song during government meetings or sharing links to her YouTube page with those she meets, she is not afraid to let others know what God has done in her life. But life has not always been hunky dory.
Her uncle was infamously gunned down at a hotel when she was 17 in 1968, and her father, A.D. King, drowned a year later when she was 18. Her grandmother, Alberta Williams King, was shot and killed while playing the organ at church a few years later in 1974.
But for Alveda King, it was art that helped her process grief as a teenager and young adult to become the joyful woman she is today. And last Thursday, that was the message she shared with young kindred spirits over 6,000 miles away from her home in the Caucasus country of Armenia, who are also learning to use art as a means to process the pain in their lives.
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Whether it’s breaking out in song during government meetings or sharing links to her YouTube page with those she meets, she is not afraid to let others know what God has done in her life. But life has not always been hunky dory.
Her uncle was infamously gunned down at a hotel when she was 17 in 1968, and her father, A.D. King, drowned a year later when she was 18. Her grandmother, Alberta Williams King, was shot and killed while playing the organ at church a few years later in 1974.
But for Alveda King, it was art that helped her process grief as a teenager and young adult to become the joyful woman she is today. And last Thursday, that was the message she shared with young kindred spirits over 6,000 miles away from her home in the Caucasus country of Armenia, who are also learning to use art as a means to process the pain in their lives.
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MLK's niece tells child victims of ethnic cleansing, violence how art helped her overcome the pain her life
Alveda King shared a message of hope with young kindred spirits over 6,000 miles away from her home, in Armenia, bonding over their shared use of art as a means to process the pain in their lives
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