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James Lawson, Civil Rights Activist and MLK’s Chief Strategist, Dies at 95
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoMartin Luther King Jr.'s family, Chef José Andrés, Cornel West and numerous others mourn the...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
theGrio via AOL· 3 hours agoEulogizing the late Rep. John Lewis last year, he recalled how the young man he trained in Nashville grew lonely marches into multitudes, paving the way for major civil rights ...
Billionaire Magic Johnson shares the secret to his success, if Arizona is listening
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoThey didn’t want a handout. Just an opportunity.” Let’s hope Arizona leaders were listening. The way things are going in public education, there’s not much opportunity for ...
Juneteenth Festival 2024 in Rochester: What to know about parade and activities
Gannett via AOL· 10 hours agoOn June 15, the Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission celebrates 60 years of...
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
55 empowering Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
The Today Show via AOL· 17 hours agoJuneteenth quotes “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it...
Magic Johnson is a product of Martin Luther King Jr. through inspiration, opportunities
The Arizona Republic· 6 days agoDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Johnson was a kid growing up in Lansing, Michigan at the time the...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 18 hours ago"He never used the word 'protest,' he used the word 'demonstration,' because he thought nonviolent...
'He never wavered': Massillon civil rights icon James Lawson dies at 95
The Repository via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoFor Nashville native Howard Gentry — longtime elected official and the city’s only Black vice mayor...
St. Petersburg police sergeant forces wrong-way driver off road
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoA St. Petersburg police sergeant on Monday crashed into a wrong-way driver’s car to force it off a one-way street as oncoming traffic approached, police ...