On October 18 & 19, 2011 the leadership group held a series of meetings and press conferences with several Black Mayors of AL who acquiesce to their cities suffering by the BP Oil Spill with unemployment and crime rates at…

On April 21, 2011, I spoke on Al Sharpton’s National Radio Show and he made a decision to work with us on this endeavor and lend his voice whenever necessary and he has done an outstanding job of this. Thereafter,…

On March 30, 2011, our group held a protest outside BP’s Headquarters in New Orleans. Despite being pushed, shoved and arrested, we continued our work to get claimants paid.

On March 17, 2011, we went back to the BP headquarters where our group was met by BP security that shoved and kicked me and I was incarcerated.

On March 15 & 16, 2011, ministers, small business owners, the underserved and underrepresented and I held a “TENT CITY” where we slept outside BP’s facility in Houma, LA demanding that the claims filed be paid. During this overnight protest,…

On March 15, 2011 the key ministers met with BP officials at the BP Headquarters in New Orleans, LA and the officials stated they would meet back with us to resolve this issue on our next visit to their headquarters.

On February 19, 2011, I attended a hearing in Tallahassee where members of the House Economic Affairs Committee expressed frustration with Feinberg over delays, lack of transparency and lack of local accountability in the claims process. We left the meeting…

On September 2, 2010, we met with Kenneth Feinberg in Slidell, LA along with 20 ministers from the Gulf Coast Region under the leadership of Dr. Harry Blake (Shreveport, LA). At this meeting, Feinberg, the BP Fund CZAR, commissioned all…

Pensacola’s first Health Awareness Festival, sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as part of its annual state convention, drew hundreds of people to Hollis Williams Park on Saturday. Among the more than 20 community organizations partnering with SCLC was…