Julian Bond was a longtime activist and public servant, and a tirelessly outspoken voice for change Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at PEOPLE, which he first joined in 2015.

Julian Bond, the civil rights icon and former NAACP ... to credibility during his longtime chairmanship and who was the first black American nominated as vice president, died Saturday night ...

Mine was no exception. But my first job also happened to include a co-worker named Julian Bond, the civil rights activist, former NAACP chairman and professor who died this weekend. We worked ...

President Obama hailed Mr. Bond as a “hero” and as a friend to the first family. “Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life,” the president said in a statement. “Julian ...

*Another civil rights warrior and champion has fallen. Julian Bond, former NAACP board chairman, civil rights leader and elected politician has passed away. He was 75. According to the Southern ...

Julian Bond, former Chairman of the NAACP, and long time Georgia State Senator, was the first true intellectual that I ever knew personally and his depth of knowledge on so many subjects was ...

Surveys indicated that he was, by far, the most popular choice to be the country’s first African American president. “Julian Bond is the only person since King to command a national ...

My mother had asked me what it was like being in a class with Julian Bond, the civil rights pioneer, and this was my first impression. Bond, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 75 ...

Julian Bond served as chairman of the NAACP from 1998 to 2009. In 2006, Bond became one of the first prominent black leaders to get tested for HIV. He tells FRONTLINE that for too long ...