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November 15th, 2008
Martin Luther King Jr.’s family says they want their cut of the money being made from t-shirts and other merchandise depicting president-elect Barack Obama alongside the slain civil rights leader.
King’s nephew, Isaac Newton Farris, said that hundreds of thousands of dollars - maybe even millions - is being made, and the King estate is entitled to its share. “Some of this is probably putting food on people’s plates,” Farris said.
“We’re not trying to stop anybody from legitimately supporting themselves, but we cannot allow our brand to be abused.”
Obama, America’s first Black president, will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, the day after the public holiday was created to honor Dr King, who was shot dead in 1968.
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