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WASHINGTON — The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is giving $3 million for the long-delayed memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall. The gift brings the fundraising to $90 million of the $100 million needed. With fundraising and help from lenders and banks, the memorial has enough money to break ground this spring. Building the 4-acre memorial plaza will take 18 to 20 months. It will sit along the edge of the Tidal Basin — where the civil-rights pioneer delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 — and will feature a large sculpture by a Chinese artist of King emerging from granite and stone walls engraved with King quotes.
The Associated Press
