Yolanda King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. She was 51
King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, at age 51, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but think it might have been a heart problem.
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Rev. Jerry Falwell, a four-star general in the Religious Right's culture wars and a televangelist whose Moral Majority group forged conservative Christians into a formidable political force, died Tuesday after collapsing in his office in Lynchburg, Va.
Falwell, an influential man with a booming voice and a penchant for provocative statements, was 73. Speaking at a news conference, Falwell's personal cardiologist, Dr. Carl Moore, said Falwell had suffered from heart problems and likely had died from cardiac arrhythmia, a heart rhythm abnormality that occurs without warning.
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