The Interview: John Lewis’ co-author talks faith, voting rights and their new graphic novel, ‘Run’
ADELLE M BANKS, speaks to Andrew Aydin about his new graphic novel, co-authored with late US congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis…
Bernice King: Racial justice activism must focus on strategy
Atlanta, Georgia, USAP Rev Martin Luther King, Jr’s, youngest daughter said she’s afraid American society is unraveling, telling a Christian radio network on Thursday that “I don’t know what’s going to happen ultimately to democracy.” But Dr Bernice King also said she is determined to be part of the solution, working to transform minds and […]
Essay: Barack Obama’s address at John Lewis’ funeral
Former US President BARACK OBAMA gave an inspiring tribute to those present at the funeral service for John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday. Here’s a transcript, via AP, of what he said…
John Lewis mourned as “founding father” of better America
AP Hailed as a “founding father” of a fairer, better United States, John Lewis was eulogised Thursday by three former presidents and others who urged Americans to continue the work of the civil rights icon in fighting injustice during a moment of racial reckoning. The longtime member of Congress even issued his own call to action – […]
US politicians hail John Lewis as “conscience” of Congress
Washington DC, USAP In a solemn display of bipartisan unity, congressional leaders praised Democratic Representative John Lewis as a moral force for the nation on Monday in a Capitol Rotunda memorial service rich with symbolism and punctuated by the booming, recorded voice of the late civil rights icon. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Lewis the […]
Essay: The challenge civil rights giants leave us
Sojourners’ JIM WALLIS and ADAM TAYLOR pay tribute to US civil rights giants John Lewis and CT Vivian…
Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge
Selma, AlabamaAP The late US Representative John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. The bridge became a landmark in the fight for racial justice when Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten there 55 years ago on “Bloody Sunday”, a key […]
In the US, CT Vivian remembered as courageous, humble Civil Rights warrior
Atlanta, USAP The nation paid its final respects Thursday to Rev CT Vivian, a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement who helped end segregation across the South and left an abiding imprint on US history. Vivian, a close ally of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, was mourned by civil rights icons along with TV personality […]
Religious faith was a lifelong constant for US Congressman John Lewis
Birmingham, Alabama, USAP From his childhood, when he preached to chickens in the dirt-poor South, to his decades as a moral force in Congress, religious faith was a constant in the life of Representative John Lewis. Lewis spent boyhood days as a make-believe minister, preaching to a congregation of clucking birds at his rural home […]
The preaching politician: ‘Good Trouble’ documentary follows John Lewis from fields of Alabama to halls of Congress
RNS Before he was a Democratic congressman and before he was a civil rights activist, Representative John Lewis preached to the chickens on his family’s farm as a young boy. It’s a story staffers of Lewis can repeat by heart because they’ve heard it so many times. “They would bow their heads; they would shake […]