The nephew of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. is not leading the civil rights organization his uncle helped start. This afternoon, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said Isaac Newton Farris is no longer its President.
SCLC board chair Dr. Bernard LaFayette did not clearly explain the change in leadership. At first, he said Farris told him he has a lot of other things to do.
“He has burdened with some other responsibilities that kind of thing,” LaFayette said.
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