The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — James Lawson, the man who inspired a generation of nonviolent activists in the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement and helped organize the push to desegregate lunch counters ...

Rev. James Lawson Jr., who died in 2024 at 95, is sometimes overlooked as a key deputy in the non-violent movement that transformed American civil rights.

Lawson was able to connect the principles of Gandhi to Biblical principles, which he was able to use to show the fragility and immorality undergirding the white supremacist power structures upholding ...

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, ...

UCLA historian Vinay Lal remembers speaking alongside the Rev. James Lawson during a panel discussion in Pasadena in 2008 and feeling awestruck by the “majestic” manner in which the veteran civil ...

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 ...

Following the recent death of civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson, lawmakers hope to finally achieve a years-long effort to award him a Congressional Gold Medal. “There’s not enough knowledge about ...

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 ...

Read full article: Balloon release held for woman killed after her dog bit her multiple times A man was electrocuted on the West Side. MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of ...