Family Says Coretta Scott King Improving

Family at Vigil: Coretta Scott King Continuing to Improve, Days After Suffering Stroke

Coretta Scott King is slowly recovering from a stroke that had left her unable to walk and barely able to speak, and she has been singing with a speech therapist, her daughter said Sunday.
"It's not in the soprano voice that she has," Bernice King said of her mother, a trained classical singer. "But it's in a voice that's good to hear."
Doctors say the 78-year-old widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. suffered a stroke Tuesday that left her weakened on the right side of her body and mostly unable to speak...