King Family

As Van Evers squeezed beside the freshly unearthed casket for the six-hour ride, one thought consumed him: He was going to see his father.He never believed he'd have this chance. Three years old when his father, Medgar Evers, was killed, Van had only faint memories of a man leaving bubble gum cigars on his bunk bed. After the murder, he would pick up the phone and ask, "Have you seen my daddy?"Now, nearly 30 years later, the body was being brought to Albany, N.Y., from Arlington National Cemetery for an autopsy to bolster a case against the accused killer.

The first volume of what is considered the most definitive project ever devoted to the life of Martin Luther King Jr. chronicles his childhood hatred of whites, his early religious doubts and the choices that catapulted him to the forefront of the civil rights movement.Drawing on previously unpublished letters and student essays, "Called to Serve" traces King's family from the last generation of slaves to his 22nd year. The book, which will be published next month, chronicles the hatred King felt toward whites back to age 6, when the father of a white playmate told his son he could no longer play with young King.

Sons learn from their fathers. Whether it's how to throw a ball, ride a bike, shave or tie a tie, the lessons fathers teach can last a lifetime. But how do those lessons change when a son joins his father in business? Howard Magazine talked with local father-son teams about how their relationships moved from the family circle to the daily grind, as well as what works - and what doesn't - when it comes to working together. The Hillmuth family At Hillmuth Certified Automotive, customers say staff members treat them like family.

There is something wrong with a society that can't allow itself to just enjoy the simple pleasures of a Christmas TV special without analyzing the experience to death. Have we become so media-critical and deconstructionist that there's no place for a little Rudolph joy in our post-postmodern hearts? That's what I was thinking as I sat down with Bravo's The Christmas Special Christmas Special, a one-hour look at the history of Christmas television shows. The special, hosted by Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)

City homicide detectives yesterday continued investigating two separate weekend slayings of two East Baltimore teens. In the first, residents called police to the 3300 block of Elgin Ave. in West Baltimore about 10:30 p.m. Friday after hearing gunshots. Police found 16-year-old Michael King of the 1000 block of Patterson Park Ave. on a porch on the 3300 block of Elgin Ave. with multiple gunshot wounds. Frances Bowman said she had just gone to sleep when she heard several shots. She then heard the sounds of someone stumbling and crashing into her living room window.

PENSACOLA, Fla. - In a courtroom here today, Judge Frank Bell will preside over a sensational murder trial: 14-year-old Derek King and his 13-year-old brother, Alex, will face first-degree murder charges in the grisly killing of their father late last year. It is a killing that Bell, of Escambia Circuit Court, has already learned a lot about. He just finished presiding over another first-degree murder trial involving the same victim but a different defendant. The testimony of the two boys was the key evidence in the trial that just ended.

WASHINGTON -- Let us remember Coretta Scott King for the earlier triumphs of her life and not so much for her family's later controversies. Let us remember the love, courage and tenacity of a woman who worked, by all accounts, as a full partner with her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., even when his traditionalism kept him from letting her show the extent of that partnership in public. Let us remember the stirring speech she gave in her own political coming-out, a month after her husband's assassination in 1968, when she called on "black women, white women, brown women and red women - all women of this nation," to join "in a campaign of conscience."

On January 15, 2004, while surrounded by his loving family, N. PAUL, JR., loving husband of Jean King; devoted father of Paul N. and his wife Mary Beth, Ronald E. and his wife Donna, Kris M. and his wife Cathy, Kenneth R. and his wife Cheri, and Kevin P. and his wife Lisa King; dear brother of Sharon Fantazier and Linda Ambrose; cherished grandfather of Kristen, Kerry, Jessica, Ryan, Sean, Brady, Christopher, Caitlin, Matthew Paul, Caroline, Mason, Lillian,...

Arthur Gerrish "Gerry" Green Jr., a retired senior claims manager and attorney for Maryland Casualty Co., died from complications of a stroke Thursday at Wellspring Retirement Community in Greensboro, N.C. He was 79. The former Towson resident, who had lived in Greensboro since 1999, was senior claims manager and attorney for Maryland Casualty at its headquarters on 40th Street for 35 years until retiring in 1988. Mr. Green was born and reared in Beaumont, Texas. After graduation from high school, he earned his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Texas.

"Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65," by Taylor Branch. Simon and Schuster. 746 pages. $30.Ever since Ronald Reagan came to power nearly 20 years ago, conservatives have taken a certain ribald delight in ridiculing the 1960s as the decade of the spoliation of America, 10 years of endless pot parties, flag-desecration, sexual abandon, and other assorted debaucheries.Such simplistic caricatures are now decisively put to rest by the gifted Baltimore writer Taylor Branch in this much-anticipated second volume of a trilogy that began 10 years ago with the publication of his magisterial "Parting the Waters."