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The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 4 weeks agoLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled...
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 4 weeks agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
US civil rights hero James Lawson dies at 95
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 4 weeks ago[Getty Images] James Lawson, the black civil rights activist who travelled to India to study non-violent protest and served as chief strategist to Dr...
Ben & Jerry’s is set to be spun off from Unilever. Here’s how the company’s founding duo built an...
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoBen & Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in Burlington, Vermont.Steve Liss/The LIFE...
Nazis seized hundreds of artworks from anti-Hitler comic. Many ended up in US museums
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoNew York prosecutors this week returned two modernist drawings Nazis seized over 80 years ago to...
2 artworks returned to heirs of Holocaust victim. Another is tied up in court
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoNew York prosecutors on Friday returned two pieces of art they say were stolen by Nazis from a...
‘Really proud.’ Centre Region Council of Government’s executive director set to retire
State College Centre Daily Times via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoThe Centre Region Council of Government will soon begin a search for its next leader as its...
Former envoy to U.S., Bi-khim Hsiao, may become Taiwan's next VP
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoAfter recently leaving her post as Taiwan's envoy to the United States, Bi-khim Hsiao appears headed...
On This Day, Dec. 3: Judge OKs Detroit's largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S.
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoOn December 3, 2013, a federal judge ruled that Detroit was eligible for the largest municipal...
Davidson to keep name of slave owner on campus building. School president explains why
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoDavidson College’s central academic building will continue to bear the name of a man who enslaved...