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Rev. James Lawson's impact on Nashville's civil rights history will never be forgotten
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWith profound sadness, we at American Baptist College mourn the loss of Rev. James Morris Lawson...
James M. Lawson Jr., a Top Strategist for Dr. King, Is Dead at 95
New York Times· 7 days agoAfter studying Gandhi’s principles of civil disobedience in India, he joined the 1960s civil rights...
At least 45 Aramark food workers arrested during Center City demonstration for better pay and health...
Philly.com· 4 days agoUnion members working for Aramark at the South Philadelphia sports complex conducted a “civil ...
James Lawson, architect of nonviolent protest of civil rights movement, dies at 95
Washington Post· 7 days agoAs a young Methodist missionary, Rev. Lawson traveled to India, where he studied the principles of...
Big Banks Are Helping Big Oil Kill the Planet
Newsweek· 5 days agoTo say climate scientists are being ignored is an understatement. The planet is sliding past 1.5 degrees Celsius of heating. Heat waves and crop failures...
'A woman should cast off her shame together with her clothes': What women in ancient times really...
BBC News· 3 days agoA new book tells the history of the ancient world through women and what they had to say about their...
A Frightening View of Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Harvard
Reason.com· 19 hours agoProfessor Lawrence Bobo, Dean of Social Science and the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, has an article in the Harvard Crimson on the proper limits of ...
Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoAs a civil rights activist, at his Los Angeles church and in his practice of nonviolence, James...
The Race for Running Mate
New York Times· 6 days agoDonald Trump has tightened his V.P. list to dependable and loyal campaigners. Discipline, experience and risk aversion are not traits typically...
Former Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt, driven from public life by scandal, dies at 83
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland· 5 days agoAfter Goldschmidt's stint as governor and then lobbyist, the revelation that he'd raped a...