Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "What happened here in Memphis changed our world." Those words were spoken Feb. 20 at the National Civil Rights Museum by former ...

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, has died, his ...

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 ...

“Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love,” by the late Rev. James Lawson Jr. and Memphis journalist Emily Yellin releases Feb. 17, nearly two years after Lawson's death. Yellin shares ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The day of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday was as routinely busy as any Thursday on Vanderbilt University’s campus, but ...

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," I speak with writer Emily Yellin, coauthor of the new posthumous memoir by Civil Rights leader the Rev. James Lawson. Nonviolent: My Life of ...

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 ...

"What happened here in Memphis changed our world." Those words were spoken Feb. 20 at the National Civil Rights Museum by former New York television news anchor Carol Jenkins, moderator of what was ...

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, ...