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• Black Ministers Targeted Dayton Mayor for Gay Rights Law

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 614
  On Tuesday night, the media and gay communitys attention was focused on the ballot issues in Kalamazoo, Maine and Washington state. But another gay rights-related issue was playing out in Dayton, Ohio. Two-term incumbent Mayor Rhine McLin lost her re-election...
  1 week ago

• Bernice King elected SCLC president

  
  THEBLACKURBANTIMES.COM — Authority: 157
  By Ernie Suggs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Bernice King Could Denounce Her Own Anti-Gay Bigotry. Will She?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 728
  Having finally settled what to do with the estate of her father , Martin Luther King Jr.s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, is free to get on with her life. Namely, to become head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the decades-old civil rights organization that her father once led. Late last week. Ms. ...
  1 week ago

• Bernice King Takes Over SCLC, Will She Renounce Anti-Gay Bigotry?

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 614
  In August, Rod 2.0 reported the Rev. Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and a well-fundamentalist minister and anti-gay activist, was being considered to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization founded by...
  1 week ago

• Civil rights, but just for me

  
  What Tami Said — Authority: 572
  I was going to begin this post be talking about Mohandas Gandhi. I was going to chastise Bernice King, daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and new leader of the civil rights organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), for her hateful pronouncement, recounted in The ...
  1 week ago

• MLK’S DAUGHTER IS SCLC’S FIRST FEMALE PREZ

  
  Entertainment News, Sports News, Celebrity News, African American Culture & Community News and Events - Bilal Ali Productions — Authority: 153
  Rev. Bernice King, the youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, on Friday became the first woman to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference civil rights organization co-founded by her father. “I stand before you as a daughter of the civil rights movement calling forth ...
  1 week ago

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  African American Political Opinion — Authority: 113
  Earl Ofari Hutchinson Bernice King can make history in two ways. She made it first by becoming the first woman in the fifty two year history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to take the organization’s reins. Now she can make history in another way. She should renounce the anti-gay bigotry of her ...
  1 week ago

• Martins Daughter Making Her Own Kind of History

  
  TheSkeptikOne — Authority: 117
  Its been a relatively good and historic week for Black and LGBT people in America. After all this was the week that President Obama signed an expansion of the hate crimes law named after Mathew Shepard and James Byrd.... Shepard the young gay man brutalized and left to die by two homophobic neanderthals tied to a ...
  1 week ago

• King To Lead Civil Rights Group

  
  News You Should Know | BET.com — Authority: 528
  Bernice King will now lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization her father, Martin Luther King, Jr., co-founded From The Grio: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced her election as its eighth president Friday morning. Interim President Byron Clay called King ...
  2 weeks ago

• SCLC Protests Taser Death of Michael Jacobs (Ft. Worth)

  
  Electronic Village — Authority: 566
  The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is calling for a march of 10,000 people or more to denounce the decision not to discipline the Stephanie Phillips , the Fort Worth police officer who murdered Michael Patrick Jacobs by Mayor Mike Moncrief and the City of Fort Worth . " It is time ...
  2 weeks ago

• NAACP Shows No Cojones in Florida Taser Killing of Derrick Humbert

  
  Electronic Village — Authority: 566
  I truly want to give the NAACP the benefit of the doubt. I want them to be relevant at the national level and in each of their local branches around the country . However, the response of the NAACP Manatee County branch regarding the recent taser-killing down in Bradenton (FL) is very disappointing. The NAACP ...
  6 weeks ago

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