The Rev. James L. Bevel, 72, a fiery top lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a force behind civil rights campaigns of the 1960s whose erratic behavior and conviction on incest ...

ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions are 18 games into the Jesse James experience, and Year 2 is off to another head-scratching start regarding the tight end’s usage. James not only doesn’t have a ...

The Rev. James L. Bevel, 71, a top lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. who is also credited with helping to conceive and organize the Million Man March, faces up to 20 years in prison when he is ...

Bevel was arrested in June for pressuring his daughter to have sex with him in Leesburg, Va., when she was 15. According to the daughter, unnamed in news accounts, the sexual abuse began when she ...

James Luther Bevel was born Oct. 19, 1936, in the farming community of Itta Bena, Miss. He was one of 17 children born to a sharecropper father and a mother who frequently beat the children.

This is sad. James Bevel was an early leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was instrumental in three of the ...

The Rev. James Bevel, the Rev. Richard Boone and the Rev. Harold Middebrooks at Bailey's Tabernacle Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on June 11, 1964. (Birmingham News File) ...

WASHINGTON — The Rev. James L. Bevel, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement whose legacy was clouded by an incest conviction has died, a relative said. He was 72. Bevel d… ...

Jurors at the incest trial of civil rights leader James Bevel listened to an hour-long recording of a phone call in which he appeared to offer a defense against an incest charge.

James battled through a tough debut season in Detroit. ... Lions TE Jesse James has heart-to-heart with Darrell Bevell about what went wrong last year. Updated: Sep. 03, 2020, 5:38 p.m.

Bevell reached out and called James during the middle of the virtual offseason training program earlier this year and told James things didn't work out like Bevell envisioned. He told James he felt ...