"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 ...
“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 ...
"For at the heart of racism is the idea that a man is not a man, that a person is not a person. You are human beings. You are men. You deserve dignity." These words from the Rev. James Lawson Jr. are ...