Martin Luther King's children in a legal battle over Bible, Nobel Prize

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s children are at odds over who owns their father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal, and depending on which side wins, the historical items could soon be up for sale.

Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King say that their sister, Bernice Albertine King, "secreted and sequestered" the Bible and medal, violating a 1995 agreement that gave the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., Inc. ownership of all of King's property. The for-profit was founded in 1993 to manage licensing of King's image and intellectual property, the Los Angeles Times reports, and all three children are shareholders.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.