King announced her departure as a news anchor for CBS San Francisco on December 7, 2012. Although this departure allowed King more free time to pursue her art career, she initially began her career while simultaneously working as a news anchor for KPIX-TV (CBS 5). In the time following her departure, King planned to pursue her passion for art and sculpting. Furthermore, King explains her departure from journalism, saying, "I'm still a journalist, but now my medium is clay. This sculpture depicts a teacher, grandma, and pregnant woman who are standing in a triangular formation. This mural project was made possible by King who donated the space from the building she owns at East 12th Street and 13th Avenue. King explained, "Oakland is in the midst of an economic renaissance, but so many are being left behind. The art piece was the first in
Berkeley, California, to honor an African American. A year after the
statue of
Francis Scott Key in San Francisco's
Golden Gate Park was toppled by protesters on
June 19, 2020 in the wake of the
murder of George Floyd, King unveiled
Monumental Reckoning, which now encircles the plinth of the empty monument. These 350 sculptures, each four feet (1.2 meters), represent the
first Africans kidnapped from their homeland in
Angola and sold into chattel slavery in Virginia in 1619. Recent work includes a statue of pioneering
Negro League baseball player
Toni Stone, a bust of Joseph Gier, the first Black tenured professor in the
University of California system, a bust of journalist and civil right activist
Ida B. Wells, and a statue of civil rights activist
Ella Baker. King relocated from California to Vero Beach, Florida in 2022 to join her daughter and grandchild. == Works ==