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The Rev. William Lawson, Texas civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King Jr, dies at 95

The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston, Texas, and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died. He was 95. Lawson’s longtime church, Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, announced on its website that Lawson died Tuesday. Lawson founded Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in 1962 and served as its pastor for 42 years before retiring in 2004. He worked with King during the civil rights movement by setting... Читать дальше...

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Storms kill a pregnant woman in Louisiana, adding to the region's recent weather woes

Storms that slammed several Southern states have added to the region’s recent string of weather-related destruction and death. A woman who was nine months pregnant was killed after Monday night’s storms knocked a tree into a home in Louisiana's West Baton Rouge Parish. Her unborn child did not survive. The severe weather threat Tuesday stretched from Tennessee to south Georgia. And authorities in Oklahoma say they found a man’s body in an area where they had been searching for one missing since a tornado May 6. Читать дальше...