Julian Bond, charismatic civil rights figure, dies at 75

So sad. Julian Bond passed away on Aug. 15, and celebs are mourning the famed civil rights activist's death on Twitter. See their heartbreaking tweets here.

I saw Julian Bond standing outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 28 of this year, the day the Court heard argument in Obergefell v. Hodges, the historic same-sex marriage case. My usual practice is to leave celebrities alone in public. I had met Bond

Julian Bond, a leading figure from the 1960s civil rights movement who served as chairman of the NAACP after a long career in politics, died Saturday.

FILE- In this July 8, 2007, file photo shows NAACP Chairman Julian Bond addresses the civil rights organization's annual convention in Detroit. Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015

Julian Bond has died. An icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Julian Bond was a founder of SNCC and headed both the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He served in the Georgia Legislature for 20 years after famously winning over attempts by