Reverend James M. Lawson Jr., civil rights activist and former longtime pastor of L.A.’s Holman United Methodist Church, has died. Lawson died Sunday, according to his family. He was 95 years old.

Reverend James M. Lawson Jr., civil rights activist and former longtime pastor of L.A.’s Holman United Methodist Church, has died. Why now: Lawson died Sunday, according to his family. He was 95 years ...

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 ...

Rev. James Lawson Jr., was a civil rights titan and the lead strategist for the nonviolence philosophy that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., employed during the Civil Rights Movement. Bankole Thompson ...

*The Los Angeles Sentinel has confirmed the sudden passing of Reverend James Morris Lawson Jr. this morning, June 10, due to cardiac arrest. He was 95. Reverend Lawson, a revered civil rights activist ...

After the years-long effort, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna tells theGrio, “There’s not enough knowledge about how profound a role James Lawson played in the civil rights movement in this country.” Following the ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES — A celebration of the co-naming of a milelong stretch of Adams Boulevard in South Los Angeles as the Reverend James Lawson Mile will be held Thursday at Holman United Methodist Church.

James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training hundreds of youthful protesters in nonviolent tactics that made the Nashville lunch counter ...