WTF, Newsweek? News Site Tweets Photo of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Casket

Updated Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, 5:04 p.m. EST: Shortly after this post went live, Newsweek issued an apology to Bernice King for the insensitive photo from its Twitter account:

WTF, Newsweek? News Site Tweets Photo of Martin Luther King Jr. in a Casket

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