` ` His status is uncertain , '' spokesman says of James Newton Farris , who has been the president since the death of his predecessor last year . The Rev . Martin Luther King Jr. was James ' uncle . The organization has suffered though internal strife in recent years .
`` His status is uncertain , '' spokesman says of Isaac Newton Farris Jr. Farris has been SCLC president since the death of his predecessor last year . The Rev . Martin Luther King Jr. was Farris ' uncle . The organization has gone though internal strife in recent years .