Returned from the march on washington and 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 a 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. Right. Along with dr. King and reverend abernathy and andy young and Joseph Lowrie and ct vivian and another lion we lost on the same day as john lewis. John had an incorruptible integrity and 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 gay rights hero. A Senior Rights hero. A worke
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
In 2018 mar, got decided to take a break from retirement and her home in the quiet Little German village of townhouse bought to embark on an adventure, a marathon motorbike trip to iran. No matter how painstakingly the 64 year old prepared there would be on forcible challenges ahead on her 18000 kilometer tour, he failed beth ma got got off to a bumpy start. Suffering engine problems before shed even gotten out of germany from poland. She continued across ukraine to russia and on through context on was becca stan kirk, a stand and to chica stand, and that didnt go smoothly either. Still, there was no stopping her progress to iran until now. Yeah, i got out thoughtfully cash off. 2 yet so m o is a team say for you. Ah, my god, next stop is more got in touch because stan, the 64 year old has already put more than 7000 kilometers behind. Her mockup has a population of 7000. The market is a Meeting Place for everyone who lives in the surrounding mountains. Were still in an altitude of 3600
We expect the passage of an effective civil rights bill. Were going to move together. Were going to Grow Together. Freedom, freedom, Freedom Freedom now free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, we are free at last we march to redress old grievances and help to resolve an american crisis. That crisis is born of the twin evils of racism and economic depravation. We march to demonstrate massively and dramatically our unalterable opposition to these forces and to their centurylong robbery of the American People. Our bodies will bear witness that jobs and freedom are needed now. Those were the words used 50 years ago to explain why we march on august 28th, 1963, when more than 200,000 americans demonstrated that the time for change had come. 50 years later, the voices that will speak from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial have changed, but the reasons to march remain the same. Good morning. Im Melissa Harrisperry, live from the National Mall in washington, d. C. , where events are al
72 at 4 00 and the clouds return at 7 00 and 68. The day planner is foggy up north and 58 and mild and sunny and 77 by noon and 85, a couple of degrees cooler than yesterday and a pleasant evening in the lowtomid 70s and fog at the coast and mid50s and partly sunny, lowtomid 60s at the beaches this afternoon. We have a stalled vehicle on the span of the Golden Gate Bridge but everyone is moving fine from marin county to San Francisco. Not a bad drive out there as we take you to san jose we have a report of a crash involving a car versus a bicyclist southbound 101 at the actually road offramp and it is looking stopandgo north of 280 and 680, and the Golden Gate Bridge the metering lights are turned on and it is busy. We will talk more now about the the bay bridge. The eastern span is on the left sidebyside spans on right, and later tonight, caltran will close the entire bay bridge if five days in preparing for the day but of the new eastern span two decades in the making. Tomorrow, comm