Monuments unveiled honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., uniting the twin cities

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. -- Hundreds of people came together in unity today from both Benton Harbor and Saint Joseph Michigan, with twin monuments to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being unveiled in both of the twin cities. 

In Benton Harbor, the statue called 'A Seat at the Table' was dedicated this afternoon by Martin Luther King the Third, along with a similar statue in St. Joseph as part of the United Civic Monuments Project, designed to bring these two communities together, after decades of racial and socioeconomic division. 

After the St. Joseph monument was dedicated, much of the crowd, including members of the Benton Harbor and St. Joseph School Marching Bands, walked a mile and a half through downtown across the Bicentennial Bridge into Benton Harbor, where Nov.19 was officially declared Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Day. 

ABC57's Anchor Brian Conybeare had the honor of interviewing Martin Luther King the Third before they sat down at Lake Michigan College for a discussion about the state of his father's dream, what these monuments mean to him, his father's legacy, and how we can all come together during such divided political times.