On April 4, the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. His daughter, Bernice King, gave a powerful sermon at Mason Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis, Tennessee, according to Huffington Post.

The church was the site of King's last speech before he died. And although the civil rights leader famously said then that he "may not get there with you," Berenice King said this week that her father was hard at work on his next major message, an address in line with his radical message that had a radical title: "America May Go to Hell.”

In her remarks, Berenice King riffed off elements of the speech, updating them for today.

"If you would permit me, I think as I look at the landscape of our world today, America may still go to hell,” Bernice King said. “So 50 years later, I’m here to declare and decree not only must America be born again, but it’s time for America to repent.”

She then preached about the continuing prevalence of three evils her father warned America about: racism, poverty and militarism. 

“We have not, in 50 years, dealt with, as Daddy challenged us to deal with, the last vestiges of racism,” she said. “We must repent because Daddy challenged us to deal with a second evil: poverty, which we have refused to confront in this nation.”

And on the military-industrial complex, Berenice King said that the United States' allegiance to militarism “has robbed us of the necessary resources to address the social injustices and the social ills and the social discrepancies in our nation."

Following his sister's speech, Martin Luther King III spoke about his father's legacy.

“I remember saying, ‘Dad, don’t go,’" he said. “But I remember more important, him saying, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll be back.’ Obviously, he did not come back in the traditional physical sense.” 

Even amid hardship, King III focused on the positive progress that African-Americans have made. 

“Dad taught us that it only takes a few good women and men to bring about change. So I want to rush to tell you, do not get any ways tired. Why? Because we’ve come much too far from where we started. You see, nobody ever told us that our roads would be easy, but I know … our God didn’t bring us this far to leave us.”

Watch the Kings' full remarks below:

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