Again, in 1963, our lives intersected because my father returned from the march on washington. He began raving about a speaker, Young John Lewis who had electrified the crowd. And so imagine when i finally met him in atlanta in 1976 as a young law student, it was a transcendent moment like meeting historical figure Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin who wrote the declaration of independence but yet, here was someone who had made america live up to those noble words. Along with dr. King and reverend abernathy and andy young and Joseph Lowery and c. T. Vivian, another lion who we lost on the same day as john lewis. John had an incorruptible integrity, an ideological purity which was like a halo. Somehow this extended to everyone who was in his orbit. Myself included. And thats the reason the nation has paused from pandemic and protests and politics to bid him farewell today. Virtually every News Organization has hailed john as a civil rights hero. But john was a womens rights hero, a
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In her coverage of the First Annual HBCU Classic, a recurring theme in Melinda Matthews’ interviews was a sense that this event was (and should be) just the beginning of broader initiatives aimed at improving chess’s inclusivity and reach.