The group met at Mill Mountain Coffee & Tea and included a couple of retired teachers, a communications worker, a representative of the AFL-CIO, representatives from the NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and multiple members of the...

The newspaper also found that Trammell accepted federal funding for a food pantry and a battered women’s shelter that didn’t exist. Public officials withdrew $419,000 in county, state and federal funding in 2010 for two Trammell-controlled groups, the...

In a recent “open letter,” four prominent black leaders, including MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton, former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, former President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, stated that “we stand behind...

Guglielmi said police were coordinating with school officials to investigate the case. The Rev. Cortly "C.D." Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said political and civil rights leaders can...

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery is everywhere, all of a sudden, and not for the first time. The estimable, 90-year-old Rev. Dr. is the founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Black Leadership Conference; he led the Montgomery bus boycott...

Baltimore civil rights leader demanded that short of an apology from McDonough on his comments about "roving mobs of black youths," WCBM should remove the conservative's show from their airwaves. The Rev. Cortly "C.D." Witherspoon, president of the...