L Julian Bond attends the ‘Selma’ and The Legends Who Paved The Way Gala at Bacara Resort on December 6, 2014 in Goleta, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)  FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida (AP) — Julian Bond, a U.S. civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, a group that fights discrimination against black people, has died at age 75. Bond died Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement Sunday. The Nashville, Tennessee native was considered a symbol and icon of the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement. As a Morehouse College student, Bond helped found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and as its communications director, he was on the front lines of protests that led to the nation’s landmark civil … Read entire article »