Religious leaders gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday and pledged to fight on behalf of the growing number of federal workers who are being fired or forced out of government jobs.

This story will be updated. Pastor Walter Womack, president of the Memphis Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), has died, according to officials with the NAACP Memphis Branch.

The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting Rights at 4 p.m. Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on Henry Street.

All we wanted to do was to have a say,” said the President of the Roanoke Chapter of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Bishop Edward Mitchell. National outrage over the attack ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

Although both Black Muslims and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference had the same general goals of defeating white racism and empowering African Americans, Malcolm and King had ...