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Cardi B Sorry for 'Real Housewives' of Civil Rights Parody


FILE - Cardi B performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., April 22, 2018.
FILE - Cardi B performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., April 22, 2018.

Cardi B has apologized to the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. for portraying the civil rights leader's wife, Coretta Scott King, in a comedy skit.

News outlets report the Bronx rapper was featured in "The Real Housewives of Civil Rights," a two-minute parody that surfaced Tuesday on TMZ. Tuesday was the 55th anniversary of the March on Washington and King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

The sketch from comedian Rip Michaels' new series Off the Rip portrays pettiness between Coretta Scott King and Malcolm X's wife, Betty Shabazz, and ends with a joke about Dr. King sleeping with "The Iggy Azalea of the Civil Rights Movement."

But Bernice King later thanked Cardi B on Twitter for reaching out and apologizing, and said she looked forward to talking with her.

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