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James Lawson iintroduced Gandhian principles to American civil rights workers, showing how direct action could expose the immorality and fragility of racist white power structures.
The four men spent a combined 73 years in prison after confessing as teenagers to a 1995 double murder they did not commit. Three of them later said police coerced their confessions; the fourth man said police fabricated his.
Graduates marched out of the United Center and held a ceremony outside for students killed in Gaza, saying the university was complicit in the war. Counterprotesters called those statements antisemitic.
Incompetence rather than ideology is what’s hurting him