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James Lawson, Civil Rights Activist and MLK’s Chief Strategist, Dies at 95
The Wrap via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoMartin Luther King Jr.'s family, Chef José Andrés, Cornel West and numerous others mourn the...
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday' Changed the Course of History
Time via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoState troopers and deputies stand at the entrance to a University of Alabama building in Tuscaloosa...
Brad Paisley and Howard Gospel Choir to be the entertainment for state dinner as Bidens highlight...
CNN via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoCountry star Brad Paisley and the Howard Gospel Choir will provide the entertainment at a glitzy,...
Chicago teen earns doctoral degree at age 17
CNN via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoBy age 14, Dorothy Jean Tillman had obtained an associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degree. Despite the impressive achievements, Tillman remembers...
'Stax' doc looks at extraordinary music studio that fell to financial and racial struggles
USA TODAY via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoBooker T. Jones was in math class at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis when his life...
Biden makes fresh appeals to Black voters, hoping they can return him to the White House
CNN via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoPresident Joe Biden is working to reverse an erosion of support among Black voters this week,...
Seeing MLK's Legacy at the Gaza Solidarity Protests
Time via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 months agoA 1963 photo of Martin Luther King Jr. addressing the thousands of people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington Credit - The...
‘The Color Purple’ and ‘May December’ Filming Prove Georgia Has More to Offer Filmmakers Than...
Variety via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 months agoOver the course of his 45-year career, actor D.W. Moffett has been a leading man on Broadway, worked...