Just watching the breaking news on TV. Civil rights legend, Democratic Representative John Lewis, 80 years old, has died after a bout with pancreatic cancer. John Lewis was from Georgia and called the “conscience of Congress.” He was one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. He recently participated in a Black Lives Matter protest after the police brutality killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man—-still being a Freedom Fighter until the end. He also made an appearance at the Black Lives Matter street mural in Washington D.C. with Mayor Bowser. In recent months, petitions have circulated to get the Edmund Pettus Bridge changed to be named after him, in his honor. He was beaten during “Bloody Sunday” in March 1965 during the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights Movement marches.
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