The cousin of Jr.'s wife, Coretta Scott King, has called statue celebrating the civil rights icon a '' waste of money. The 20-foot-high piece 'The Embrace' depicts the famous hug between the two civil rights leaders after MLK Jr. learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Seneca Scott, King's cousin and a failed candidate for mayor of Oakland in 2022, spoke out against the statue Sunday.
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