VIA: AJC.com The Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials dismissed last month may have diverted at least $569,000 of the civil rights group’s money to bank accounts they controlled, according to the new board chairwoman and documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The SCLC’s former chairman, Rev. Raleigh Trammell, and former treasurer Spiver Gordon have been […]
VIA: AJC.com Weeks before installing a new King as the leader of the SCLC, the organization suspended its chairman and treasurer. In a overnight emailed press release, dated Monday, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said that its controversial board chairman, the Rev. Raleigh Trammell, and treasurer, Spiver Gordon, were suspended pending “an internal investigation into […]
VIA: The Guardian She is a firebrand baptist preacher at the forefront of American black politics, whether speaking at the Democratic National Convention, at which Barack Obama was nominated as presidential candidate, or as one of those chosen to eulogize Michael Jackson at the singer’s star-studded memorial service. Now Bernice King, the youngest child of […]
VIA: AJC.com The Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Friday named Bernice King, the daughter of SCLC co-founder Martin Luther King Jr., as its next president. King was elected over Arkansas Appeals Court Judge Wendell Griffen.The vote by the board of directors was 23-15. King was not present when the vote was announced. The Rev. Byron […]
