SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The city of Los Angeles honored civil-rights icon Rev. James Lawson with a new street named in his honor. The 95-year-old was a pillar of the 1960s civil-rights movement, ...

The Rev. James Lawson was a staunch advocate for nonviolent resistance to racism, even in the face of brutality. A Methodist minister and student of Gandhi, Lawson mentored civil rights leaders and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, ...

A pensive Rev. James Lawson at Vanderbilt University in May 2022. (Photo: John Partipilo) Rev. James Lawson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who trained scores of activists during his time in ...

James M. Lawson Jr., who honed his expertise in nonviolent advocacy in Nashville, died in Los Angeles on June 9 at age 95. When he arrived in Nashville in 1958, his deep engagement with nonviolence ...

A year ago, the world said goodbye to Reverend James Lawson Jr. On today’s show, we look back at the work and legacy this leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement and advocate of nonviolence, with ...

As a newspaper columnist, I learned many years ago that when you have made a mistake in the space in which you have been given to voice your viewpoints, you should own up to that mistake. And that’s ...

Civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who spent his formative years as an activist here in Nashville, died on July 17, 2020. On Sept. 15, 2020, the Metro Council had the first reading of an ...

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The Rev. James Lawson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who trained scores of activists during his time in Nashville -- many of whom went on to prominence -- died June 9 at the age of 95 of ...

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, died on Sunday, ...