Showing posts with label John Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Lewis. Show all posts
Friday, February 26, 2021

Hank Sanders: Sketches #1757 - The spirit of Emmett Till is still rising

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  Emmett Till's spirit is still with us. It began to rise in August 1965. Fourteen-year-old Emmett was on summer school vacation from Ch...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse - We lost some good ones in 2020

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  As is my annual ritual, this column pays tribute to Alabama political legends who have passed away during the year.    Sonny Cauthen passe...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

From preaching to the chickens to preaching to the angels

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  News of the passing of Congressman John Lewis hit me hard. I have never met a more extraordinarily kind and generous man. He was a true te...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Celebrating the Freedom Riders

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  On May 4, 1961, seven Black and six white civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C. t...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Why is racism still America’s biggest problem?

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  It rained on marchers from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, and it rained on them again this month they commemorated the day when po...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Alexandra Werner-Winslow: State legislators attack the right to protest

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  Fifty-two years ago Friday, famed civil rights judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. issued a momentous federal court ruling that prohibited Alabama ...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill's comments on voter registration are cynical, ignorant

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  In an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill attacked automatic voter registration as the “sorry...