Longtime activist to retire

A longtime pastor and community activist on Chicago's South Side is retiring.

The Reverend Arthur Brazier says he stepping down next month as pastor of Apostolic Church of God, a post he has held for 48 years.

The 86-year-old Brazier, in the 1960s, became president of The Woodlawn Organization, a community organizing group formed to fight the University of Chicago's campus expansion plans.

Brazier and his organization also worked with the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior in demonstrations against segregation in housing and schools.

Brazier says he will preach his last sermon on June 1. His son, Byron, will succeed him as pastor of the 20,000 member church.