The September 2025 issue of Vanity Fair magazine features Bernice King’s essay entitled “The Fight to Protect MLK’s Legacy.” She begins her essay with these words: “…on March 28, 1968, I celebrated my fifth birthday…with Daddy and seven days later on April 4, he was assassinated.”
King then shares her father’s dream as expressed at the March for Jobs and Freedom (Aug. 28, 1963) and his speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” (April 4, 1967).
MLK believed in democratic socialism, which calls for “a better distribution of wealth” and a more equitable society. However, King, quoting her father, states that “we have got some difficult days ahead” as this “world house” continues to address and hopefully resolve the great issues of militarism, poverty and inequality…