MLK’s Family ‘Made Peace’ with Charlie Kirk Before His Assassination

Alveda King Reveals She Made Peace With Charlie Kirk Before His Assassination Despite Clash Over MLK Comments

Dr. Alveda King, the niece of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., is opening up about her complicated relationship with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, revealing that the two made peace before his shocking assassination.

Speaking Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, King admitted she had been deeply upset by some of Kirk’s past remarks about her uncle and the civil rights movement.

“I was able to make some peace with Charlie before he was killed, because he said some bad things about my uncle,” King said. “I didn’t like it. I was upset.”

But King, a longtime conservative voice herself, said Kirk later showed a different side of himself and publicly apologized in front of her.

She pointed to one of Kirk’s final exchanges with a young Black man, saying he told him that “our DNA makes us the same, not our skin.”

“And he publicly apologized at a meeting where I was,” King added.

Then, in a moment of blunt honesty, King reminded lawmakers and viewers that political figures are rarely perfect.

“So, Charlie was not an angel, I’m definitely not an angel,” she joked. “President Trump, Biden, Obama … Angels, please raise your hand right now. If you’re out there, I need to meet you.”

Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and one of the most recognizable young voices in conservative politics, had previously sparked backlash for reported remarks about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act.

At a 2023 Turning Point USA event, Kirk reportedly called MLK “awful” and claimed the United States made a “huge mistake” by passing the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s. He argued the law helped create what he described as a permanent “DEI-type bureaucracy.”

Those comments infuriated critics on the left and even troubled some conservatives who believed Kirk had gone too far.

King, however, appeared to suggest that redemption and reconciliation mattered more than canceling someone forever.

Her remarks struck a different tone than the usual political pile-on, especially after Kirk’s death stunned conservatives across the country.

Kirk was shot and killed on September 10, 2025, during a speaking event at Utah Valley University. The shooting happened in front of a crowd and was captured on video by some who were attending the event.

A bullet struck Kirk in the neck, and he was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

In the days after the assassination, King said Kirk’s death “broke” her heart during an appearance on EWTN’s The World Over with Raymond Arroyo.

“I was so very startled when I got the news that Charlie had been shot, and my heart immediately went to him and his family, his beautiful wife, his little children,” she said, referring to Kirk’s wife, Erika, and their two young children.

King said the tragedy brought back painful memories of violence in her own family.

“Having experienced those kinds of occurrences in my own family, I immediately went into prayer,” she said.

Kirk’s critics frequently accused him of making inflammatory remarks on race, feminism, and gun rights. His supporters, however, saw him as a fearless conservative warrior who refused to bow to political correctness.

King’s comments now offer a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a relationship that could have remained defined by anger, but instead ended with forgiveness.

In a political climate where one controversial comment can follow someone forever, King’s message was clear: Charlie Kirk was flawed, but he was also human.

And before his life was cut short, she said, he had made things right.