Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a complex man and an incredible leader, and it is important and instructive to reflect on his ...

A $10 million renovation is launching at a civil rights landmark that was once a hub for leaders including Martin Luther King ...

According to NAACP officials, Pastor Walter Womack, president of the Memphis Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), ...

A prominent Memphis community faith leader, Rev. Walter Womack, died on Wednesday, the Memphis branch of the National ...

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

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew freedom in. “There was never a question over whether I could vote when I ...

Davis was the keynote speaker at the Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s 28th annual luncheon organized to celebrate King’s life and legacy as the nation marks a ...

Instead of signaling a turning of the corner in pursuit of a more perfect union, the elevation of a Black man into the White ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

DOCTOR KING WAS INVITED TO SPEAK BEFORE A SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, BUT HIS SPEECH FOCUSED ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN LOUISVILLE’S HOUSING MARKET. REVEREND CHARLES ELLIOTT ...

As quoted in David Garrow’s “Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,” King said: “I choose to identify with the underprivileged. I choose to ...