MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) came together with community leaders, activists and faith organizations on Tuesday to make an urgent call not just to Memphis but ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One of the country’s oldest civil rights organization has a new national leader with ties to Memphis. We talk one-on-one with DeMark Liggins and his vision for the Southern Christian ...

The Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference played a substantial role in the U.S. civil rights movement and the work of Martin Luther King Jr., who was its first president. But all is ...

A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in 1965 that began with “Bloody Sunday.” By Peter Applebome After studying ...

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ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of a historic march in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful protestors advocating for African American voting rights were violently attacked on ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn — Well-known religious leader Dr. Walter Womack, who served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died Wednesday at 66. His wife, Deborah Womack, says he died ...

SCLC leader speaks at Hopewell protests over city manager, clerk firings Rev. William Avon Keen, director of the Virginia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks in Hopewell ...

A softback book titled: [Southern Christian Leadership Conference Citizenship Workbook]. The front cover is black with a white vertical block that runs down the proper right side from the top. The ...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference's new president on vision for organization Photos of federal officers descending on a Los Angeles park as residents and mayor watch Baby bison appear to have a ...

Seven of this year's eight best picture nominees are stories of lone, white heroes—stories that seem out of touch with the times. The exception is Selma.