The Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement draws on the social, spiritual, and leadership capital of churches and the broader faith community to promote economic development and civic engagement in low-income neighborhoods. Specifically, the Center honors Rev. Cecil L “Chip” Murray’s three-decade-long legacy of working for the betterment of Los Angeles.
The Murray Center is currently training community leaders through the Faith Leaders Institute, a new capacity building and leadership transformation program in four neighborhoods: Boyle Heights, Long Beach, Santa Ana, and South Los Angeles.
Reverend Cecil 'Chip' Murray has been featured in a KTLA broadcast that profiles his work in the Southern California community since the 1992 L.A riots. An excerpt from the piece: "Reverend Cecil Murray is nationally known for picking up the...
The Orange County Register has published an article by Reverend Mark Whitlock, executive director of the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, discussing African-American identity in relation to black history month. An excerpt from the article: "Black is consciousness and...
A 43-year-old African American man—a member of my church—was shot in the back nine times and over 50 bullets riddled the yellow SUV in which he sat. At his funeral service, no one asked if the guns that killed him...