King's nephew named to head civil rights group

(RNS) Two and a half weeks after the sudden death of its president, the
outhern Christian Leadership Conference has named a nephew of the Rev.
artin Luther King Jr. as its new leader.

Isaac Newton Farris Jr., 48, was elected on Monday (Aug. 15) to lead
he Atlanta-based organization that has mobilized churches to fight
iscrimination.

Farris, a lifelong member of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta,
here his uncle preached, had served as interim president. He succeeds
he Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., who was tapped earlier this year but died
nexpectedly on July 28.