ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) A Georgia lawmaker has introduced legislation that would establish February 21 as “John Lewis Day” in the state.
Georgia State Representative Shelly Hutchinson has filed the legislation designating February 21 as “John Lewis Day” in Georgia. She also refiled House Bill 1212, which would ban Confederate monuments from public land.
Hutchinson released this statement regarding the legislation:
“Congressman John Lewis is a hero who left this country and this world a better place. He inspired a generation of leaders – including myself – to ask ‘if not now, then when?’ His legacy of ‘good trouble’ lives on within all of us who continue to seek equality and justice. Without a doubt, he will be remembered as one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. Every child should be taught his story. Every person should know his name. John Lewis deserves a day of remembrance. A day where we all reflect on his life, his accomplishments, and
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Poet Simone White is an assistant professor of English in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences.
Two faculty in Penn’sSchool of Arts & Sciences have been chosen for a 2021 Creative Capital Award and will each receive as much as $50,000 in funding for their creative writing projects.
Simone White, an assistant professor of English, and Marc Anthony Richardson, a lecturer in creative writing, are among 42 artists working on 35 projects to receive the award, “each of which exemplifies the risk-taking, adventurous art-making” Creative Capital says it seeks to sustain.
Creative Capital is a New York City-based nonprofit founded in 1999 to support innovative artists, “providing infusions of funding at key moments in an artist’s project,” with a particular eye toward “forward-thinking and boundary-blurring work,” according to the organization.
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