Bernice King

Bernice King and Eddie Long------when they wuz friends. Or at least she’s starting to see the light. Last time we wrote about Martin Luther King’s youngest chile she was distancing herself but fast from Bishop Eddie Long as we covered in our post Bernice King Says It Was ‘Holy Spirit’ Who Told Her To Haul Azz From Eddie Long Church.  Now according to GAvoice, Miss King is actually reaching out to gays ‘n’ lez folk in her latest public speaking ventures. Bernice King took the stage today at...Read Full Story

*It’s only fitting that on the day we celebrate her father, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., his  youngest daughter, Rev. Bernice A. King, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the famed King Center in Atlanta. The Rev. King, according to The AP, will focus on external affairs on behalf of The King Center, which was founded by her mother, Coretta Scott King, shortly after the civil rights icon was assassinated in 1968. Meanwhile, her oldest brother, Martin Luther King III, will...Read Full Story

Coincidence? Atlanta-based anti-gay Rev. Bernice King will reportedly announce today that she is resigning as an elder at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. The move comes only days after Bishop Eddie Long's settlement of four sexual misconduct lawsuits filed against him and his church by young men. Long is the spiritual mentor of the youngest daughter of the slain civil rights icon Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Bernice King will make the announcement today, reports the Atlanta Journal...Read Full Story

Any Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) supporters waiting for leader-in-waiting Rev. Bernice King to pull the struggling civil rights group from the abyss will have to wait a little longer. King announced she will not take over the SCLC next month as previously scheduled.It appears King is waiting out the court decision to see which of the two factions will win the legal fight. The factions both believe that they are the rightful owners of the organization and are scheduled to...Read Full Story

The house that her father built is burning. The once-proud civil rights group the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is being swept away in the flames of public infighting and courtroom battles among its leadership. Bernice King, daughter of SCLC founder Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and possibly the one person who might save the SCLC operation (if it should indeed be saved at all), was elected president and should have taken office at the start of the year. Instead, she sits on the...Read Full Story

Memba’ dis Bernice? Feel kinda’ stupid about it now, huh? Sorry, we got the pictures, girl. We’ll never let you live this down. Bernice King with Eddie Long at a march against gay marriage at the Martin Luther King National Historic Site (Dec. 11, 2004)   All we can do is shake our heads and laugh. Speaking publicly for the first time since it was announced that she was leaving New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Rev. Bernice King, the sanctified spawn (my pappy didn’t take a bullet for no...Read Full Story

*The Rev. Bernice King just wrapped an interview at Atlanta’s Praise 102.5, where she explained the reason for leaving her position as an elder at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church—a move she suggests has nothing to do with the accusations of sexual misconduct against Bishop Eddie Long. First, King told host Rhodell Lewis that media reports have blown her announcement way out of proportion by using the terms “step down” and “resign.” “I was a little confused about that, because I’ve never...Read Full Story

Four months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter was elected president of the civil rights group he co-founded, the organization is in a tailspin and she is silent on why she hasn't taken the helm.The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has been fractured by infighting and a federal investigation. Agents recently raided the Ohio chapter's headquarters and the home of the SCLC's national chairman, who faces accusations of financial mismanagement. In Georgia, Fulton County prosecutors...Read Full Story

TNT aired a special tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during Monday's pre-game show to  Orlando's 109-106 loss to the Celtics. The package included an interview with the anti-gay Rev. Bernice King, youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr,  new chair of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and pastor at scandal-plagued Bishop Eddie Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.  After the package aired, basketball great and TNT analyst Charles Barkley made a none-too...Read Full Story

AP source: Shaq, Celtics negotiating deal (AP) August 3rd 2010 AP - A person with knowledge of the negotiations says the Celtics are making progress on a deal that would bring Shaquille O'Neal to Boston. August 3rd 2010 AP - After nearly 10 months of silence, the Rev. Bernice King urged the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Tuesday to end the bitter infighting that has split the group she was elected to lead. Pakistan’s leader says world losing Afghan war (AP) August...Read Full Story