International Poor People’s Campaign
Dr. Charles Steele, Jr. traveled to Germany to launch the International Poor People’s Campaign to combat poverty around the world. Poverty is not just a local injustice it a global one so the SCLC seeks to eradicate extreme poverty through an cohesive international effort.
SCLC Disaster Relief
The SCLC is providing a Direct Relief Truck to bring supplies directly to the communities in the pan handle of Florida. With a generous contribution from the Horizon Trucking company, the SCLC has an 18-wheeler truck on site and is currently collecting items that will be distributed bi-weekly.
Justice For Girls
Prevent Sex Trafficking: Justice for Girls seeks to heighten awareness of human trafficking within communities, using education to empower individuals and groups to actively work to eradicate this injustice.
Kingian NonViolence Training
Central to the mission of SCLC is to awaken and strengthen the moral conscience of this country to the growing catastrophe of childhood incarceration and the obvious social unrest in under-funded and developing socioeconomic areas in rural or urban centers.
Who are we?
SCLC’s focus is to educate youth and adults in the areas of personal responsibility, leadership potential, and community service; to ensure economic justice and civil rights and to eradicate racism wherever it exists.
Latest News
Dr. Steele’s Participation Highlighted in USA Today
Emotional reading of Martin Luther King Jr. letter brings rare bipartisan bonding in Senate (please click link for full article)
SCLC Joins Coalition Urging Innovative Sickle Cell Treatment
April 9, 2019
The Honorable Alex M. Azar II
Secretary of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Dear Mr. Azar:
As organizations representing minority communities in
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Slams ‘Leaving Neverland’ as ‘Posthumous Lynching’ of Michael Jackson
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has written a letter to HBO asking the network to reconsider airing “Leaving Neverland,” the two-part film about Michael Jackson’s
SCLC PRESIDENT STEELE DELIVERS “NEVER GIVE UP” TALK TO DETROIT CITY COUNCIL
President Dr. Charles Steele Jr. went to speak to the Detroit City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. He was met by the Detroit SCLC
Charleston’s Days of Grace
Sept 5, 9am: Mass March
Sept 5 & 6:Strategy
Conference
“It would be a betrayal of everything Reverend Pinckney stood for, I believe, if we allowed ourselves to
SCLC Confederate Flag Opinion
“The confederate flag represents a time in history when the southern states fought to keep an institution of subservience. The flag is a constant reminder
Press Release: SCLC Response to Charleston Mass Shooting
Today the SCLC family offers our prayers and condolences to the families and victims of this horrific act in Charleston, SC.
Our President/CEO Dr. Charles Steele
Change Come To Cleveland as 20 Pastors and SCLC Meet
CLEVELAND - Nearly 20 pastors met at the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church on Tuesday to promote peace and safety as the Michael Brelo case draws
SCLC Present in Wake of Walter Scott’s Death
"Dr. Charles Steele, Jr. SCLC National President/CEO (left) stands in support of the efforts of the North Charles Mayor Keith Summery (seated), to require cameras
4/1/2015 Press Release: Dr. Charles Steele Jr’s Mosteller Response
Media Statement by Dr. Charles Steele, JR. National President and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) regarding public comments made on March 31st, 2015
Tell the EPA: First Do No Harm
New Regulations for “Clean Power” Disproportionately Hurt Poor and Minority Communities
By Dr. Charles Steele, Jr.
You’ve probably heard the familiar oath: “First, do no harm.” It’s
Anouncement: Black Lives Matter
Click the following link for a statement from Dr. Charles Steele Jr on Eric Garner.
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People need jobs and income. Poverty, as Dr. King reminded us, is one of the worst forms of violence.
Dr. King task me with institutionalizing and internationalizing non-violence. That is what I will continue to fight for.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.