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James Lawson, Civil Rights Activist and MLK’s Chief Strategist, Dies at 95
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 days agoMartin Luther King Jr.'s family, Chef José Andrés, Cornel West and numerous others mourn the...
James M. Lawson Jr., a Top Strategist for Dr. King, Is Dead at 95
New York Times· 5 days agoThe Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a civil rights strategist for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 days agoMore than an organizer, Lawson was on the streets with the workers and other marchers for every...
South Los Angeles pastor and civil rights icon, Rev. James Lawson Jr., dies at 95
CBS News· 5 days agoLos Angeles pastor and community leader, the Rev. James Lawson Jr., died Monday at age 95. Lawson...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader's family says
FOX 13 Memphis· 5 days agoLawson was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who called him “the leading theorist...
Jacksonville historian: Hans Tanzler was city's most important mayor since consolidation
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 7 days agoHe also called upon the Chamber of Commerce to create a jobs program for unemployed minorities....
Reliance on family and faith was the foundation that led Tucker to the Hall of Fame
Greensboro News & Record· 7 days agoFrom the town of Murphy in the Blue Ridge Mountains to Manteo, the farthest city east that borders the Atlantic Ocean, NCHSAA Commissioner Que Tucker has traversed many miles over the course ...
Community remembers costs as 60th anniversary of Civil Rights Act nears
The Meridian Star· 5 days agoAt a commemoration event Friday at First Union Baptist Church, a historic Black church were Martin ...
NATIONAL COLUMN: We need a hero
The Norman Transcript· 2 days agoOne of them, Robert Persichitti, 102, died en route to the commemoration. Then, just a few days ago, William Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut remembered for snapping the “Earthrise” photograph ...
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The Meridian Star· 5 days agoJurors have begun deliberating whether Hunter Biden is guilty of federal firearms charges over a gun the president’s son bought when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction ...