DENVER (KDVR) — A longtime civil rights leader and personal friend of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. James D. Peters, Jr., died on Saturday. Peters, 92, was born in Connecticut and was a founding ...

The Rev. James D. Peters Jr., an icon in Denver’s civil rights community and long-time pastor at New Hope Baptist Church, will be remembered as someone who stood up for the most vulnerable ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Rev. James Sullivan was born Aug 15, 1940, Ordained March 26, 1966, and passed away April 15, 2025 at the age of 84.

The Rev. James B. Callan, who was an associate pastor of Spiritus Christi since its founding in 1999 after he was removed from the parish at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church for his liberal ...

Reverend James Adolph Folkers lived from September 13, 1930 to September 9, 2024. James (Jim) Folkers was 93 years old. He was born in a farm house between Melvin and Ashton, Iowa. He then went on ...

This post was updated Aug. 11 at 10:14 p.m. The Rev. James Lawson Jr. – a civil rights activist, UCLA faculty member and the namesake of a UCLA Labor Center building – died June 9. He was 95.

The Reverend Dr. James Robert Carter, Jr., 85, passed on to the Lord on Friday August 2, 2024, at his home with his beloved wife, Jan by his side. Fr. Carter was born in Selma, Alabama on August 5 ...

The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., whom Martin Luther King called “the greatest teacher of nonviolence in America,” died on June 9 in Los Angeles at 95. Although not well-known to the wider public ...

Rev. James Lawson, Civil Rights era activist and 1961 Freedom Rider gestures during a labor rally Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003 in Oakland Park, Fl. Lawson, an apostle of nonviolent protest who ...

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 ...

He was the son of a minister and raised among 10 brothers and sisters in Massillon, Ohio. The Rev. James W. Lawson Jr., addressed a crowd at Gordon Memorial Methodist Church on Herman Street in a ...