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 ...

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 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 ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...