John lewis. We will start by reading the story from the New York Times this morning. Rning. The New York Times reports it like this. Lewis,ntative john bloodied as selma and across the historic south, and who is carried a mantle of of moral authority into congress, died on friday. He was 80. This was confirmed by nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. Stagewis announced he had stageiotic cancer four pancreatic cancer. I have fought for human rights he nearly my entire life, said. Mr. Lewis was a valiant stalwart of the Civil Rights Movement. Later,an a halfcentury after the killing in may of george floyd, mr. Lewis welcomed the resulting demonstrations against Police Killing of black people and more broadly against systematic racism in all corners of society. It was very moving to see hundreds of thousands of people from all over america and around the world take to the streets, to speak up, to speak out, to get into what i call good inuble, mr. Lewis told cbs june. Dro
Im from new york and im a heathen from television. But in 1973 i was a young correspondent assigned to cover the white house and water gate and modestly i thought i brought with me a pretty good reputation as a political reporter in california. I had covered the rise of ronald reagan. In 1968 Eugene Mccarthy and Bobby Kennedy, the night that Bobby Kennedy was killed is seared in my memory, chicago and cesar chavez, the antiwar movement, the nixon fundraising apparatus. But in washington there was a lot of except six about whether i was skepticism about whether i was up for the job. After a month of being on the white house lawn morning, noon and night, ben bradlee who i barely knew put his arm around me and said, kid, you know what youre doing. It was began a great friendship. It was only deepened when he maried my friend sally. They had quinn. It was a privilege. I had been thinking about the words that had been written and spoken about been in the past couple weeks, including mine. T
He was among Freedom Fighters of became mayors. And change the culture of those towns. Marion was a Freedom Fighter and a longdistance runner. You can cross the finish line with a resume, and add campaign, and some money and be on official but marion came not as a show horse but a workhorse. He came across the line with people in it. Lifting up the seniors and the poor and those was a backs were against the wall. He was a hero. He has got scars from his scars. He got his scars from his scars. Stars from his scars. Some will have only uniforms because they did not volunteer for the team. Cowards. Local changes a contact sport. Some make the team but never the field. Those on the field have grass stains and blood on the uniforms. No one ever hit a homerun or scored a touchdown from the bench or from the stands. If you play baseball, you get hit with a fastball sometimes. If you play football, you get tackled over and over again. Marion got bloodied, but never bowed. He died in office ser
Heavily armed local police. Lewis suffered a fractured skull. It would forever be remembered as bloody sunday. The images of brutality shocked the nation. Galvanizing support for the Voting Rights act, signed into law by president Lyndon Johnson. Lewis never lost his young, activist spirit. Taking it from protest to politics. Standing up for what he believed was right, lewis was arrested more than 40 times by police, according to his congressional office. Im on my way, and we are going to win this race. He was selected to city council in atlanta. Then, to congress in washington, representing georgias 5th district. Fighting against poverty and for healthcare, while working to help younger generations, by improving education. He reached out to young people in other ways. Cowriting a series of novels about the Civil Rights Movement. Winning him a National Book award. In the life of so many moments and great achievements, it was the achievement of another, in 2008 that, perhaps, meant the
Welcome, everyone. We may have just seen the worst day, so far, in the coronavirus pandemic. The world health organization, reporting more than a quarter of a million new infections, globally, in just 24 hours. The most ever in a single day. That averages out to more than 10,000 cases, every hour. The total is now beyond 14 million cases, according to johns hopkins. More than 600,000 people have died. The u. S. , still, by far, the worsthit country. New cases, on the rise in more than 30 states. And down in just one. A local official in florida says that people at the top are not sending the right message. When we talk about opening things, the governor and the president are all for it. They send us mandates about opening up schools. But when it comes to closing things, which is the tough medicine were asking people to follow. And making sacrifices, by Wearing Masks. Its likes their voices are nonexistent. Now, that was the mayor of miami beach in florida. A state where cases are skyro