Arts group breakfast to continue without King's name

CINCINNATI - An arts group in Cincinnati has dropped the name of the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior from a fund-raising breakfast at the family&#39;s request. <br> <br> Sharon Hardin is executive director of the Arts Consortium of Cincinnati. She says the purpose of the breakfast is to unite the community -- not divide it. <br> <br> The King family wanted the event canceled out of respect for an economic boycott by black activists. <br> <br> King&#39;s son -- Martin Luther King the Third -- asked the group in November to cancel the event for January 20. But Hardin says the group -- which supports black arts and culture -- did not want to lose the money it raises. <br> <br> The breakfast is traditionally known as the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Dreamkeeper Awards Breakfast. <br> <br> The boycott began after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed, fleeing black man in April 2001. Boycott supporters want to pressure the city to make changes to improve the lives of black residents.