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January 30, 2022
Major League Baseball has helped replace a Jackie Robinson memorial marker that was shot repeatedly by vandals in early 2021.
March 28, 2020
Lowery died Friday at home in Atlanta, surrounded by family members. He died from natural causes unrelated to the coronavirus…
April 21, 2015
OPINION - Can’t we all just get along? Better yet, when it comes to black intellectuals, can’t we agree to…
September 18, 2013
RIDGELAND, Mississippi (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal secretary is selling a collection from the early civil…
June 18, 2012
Samuel Mosteller, president of the SCLC's Georgia chapter, told reporters he believes Creflo Dollar shouldn't have been arrested last week…
November 16, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The allegations eventually drove off the Rev. Bernice King, who was poised to take the helm of…
October 24, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis called the preacher 'one of the founding fathers of the New America,' who…
October 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Even in his later years, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, remained as active as his health would allow...
September 12, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Baptist minister, Bevel was a leader in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student…
August 24, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - With Lewis leaning on his shovel, and Jackson and Young leaning on each other, they wept for…
August 16, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Howard Creecy, who had been president of the SCLC, died last month...
August 8, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Hundreds turned out Saturday for the Atlanta funeral of the Rev. Creecy, a third-generation Baptist preacher...
July 29, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., has died seven months…
February 1, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The SCLC was co-founded in 1957 by King. Over the weekend, King's nephew, Isaac Ferris Jr., was…
January 25, 2011
OPINION - The SCLC, which embodied the civil rights movement, was the first and logical casualty of the public's stamping…
January 24, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - King told The Associated Press that in the end, she and the group's leaders didn't agree on…
January 21, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - King said in a statement issued Friday that she is shifting her attention to furthering the legacy…
August 3, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Late last year, the leadership of the group founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. split…
June 1, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Today, infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement are threatening to undermine the social justice group King co-founded…
May 19, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - The feuding groups were once part of the same board, but have met and functioned separately since…