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Rev. James Lawson, longtime civil rights activist, dead at 95
WSB-TV 2 Atlanta· 5 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights activist who advocated for nonviolent protest and the...
Byron Donalds Was ‘Right’ About Jim Crow And The Black Family, Civil Rights Activist Bob Woodson...
Black America Web· 4 days agoA longtime civil rights activist with a history of working with conservatives has defended...
China jails MeToo activist Huang Xueqin for five years for ‘subversion of state’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"Their efforts and dedication to labour, women's rights and the broader civil society won't be...
Civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies at 95
FOX 13 Memphis· 4 days agoThe world is remembering the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rev. James Lawson Jr.
Kyrgyzstan: Acquittal in “Kempir-Abad case” is a victory for justice and human rights
Amnesty International· 19 hours agoWe join with Kyrgyzstani civil society, particularly women human rights defenders who have worked hard on the case, to applaud this just verdict
Victims cited in DOJ report on Phoenix police brutality call on city to implement mandated reforms
San Francisco Chronicle· 8 hours agoJarrett Maupin, a Phoenix-based activist known for working with victims of police violence, said the...
‘Magnificent matriarch’: Birmingham Civil Rights icon Myrna Carter Jackson, 82, eulogized
Birmingham News· 4 days agoMyrna Carter Jackson, the Birmingham civic activist and Foot Soldier, who died last week, was...
Naomi Klein and V. V. Ganeshananthan win Women's Prize literary awards - The Morning Sun
The Morning Sun· 2 days agoAuthor-activist Naomi Klein won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction on Thursday with...
James Lawson, architect of nonviolent protest of civil rights movement, dies at 95
Washington Post· 5 days agoThe Rev. James M. Lawson, a United Methodist minister who became a principal tactician of nonviolent...
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWhile historians continue to argue over Reconstruction’s limitations, most scholars, and increasingly the...assessments of the nation’s past, reckoning...