The passing of Dexter Scott King continues to impact the nation. On Jan. 23, Dexter’s sister, Dr. Bernice King, joined family members at the King Center to shed light on her fallen brother’s legacy.
During the press conference, Bernice provided insight on Dexter’s character and skills as a businessman.
“Dexter always had this interest in business,” Bernice said. “He always was very creative and innovative. He was so ambitious. He started a photography business. And then he started a DJ business. He used to DJ parties. And I was trying to follow Dexter again. When I was a teenager probably around 18, I started DJing parties myself.”
And I think I was in law in Divinity School at the time at Emory University. Yolanda was you know, in her acting career, Martin, I believe at the time was on the Fulton County Commission. And so we kind of all looked at this and said it’ll falls on you. But we knew because of his business sense that he wouldn’t be the best person. And so he took the helm. We know one time and then resigned. But then in 95 He took the helm of leadership at the King Center in the role that I now and then as the CEO and Dexter was before his time. Even I didn’t understand that. And he had a vision to build something that would bring my father to live through technology. Fast forward today. We understand that people didn’t understand it then. And so he came under vicious attack through the media. Self proclaimed scholars and others who didn’t understand because they were focused on in their mind. They felt his intent was for profit. But Dexter had a prophetic intent he saw into the future and had that not been disrupted. We would have had something in this nation that could have been very potent and powerful for where we are today. And so that attack may have slowed things down. But I’m standing here today to say that I’m going to make sure that the vision that Dexter Scott King had will come to…
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