ATLANTA (AP) -- 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.
Through it all, the Rev. Bernice King -- who was elected SCLC president Oct. 29 -- has said nothing. She has yet to take over, and the interim president she is replacing has already left.
With no one to speak on the group's behalf, observers say the long-declining SCLC is weaker than ever.
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