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Jul
31
2020
By The African Mirror
Obama takes aim at Trump in fiery eulogy for Civil Rights icon John Lewis

Obama takes aim at Trump in fiery eulogy for Civil Rights icon John Lewis

WORLD
RICH McKAY and  NATHAN LAYNE IN a fiery eulogy for longtime U.S. Representative John Lewis on Thursday, former President Barack Obama took a series of thinly veiled shots at the actions of his successor that he said tore at the legacy of the Black civil rights icon being laid to rest. The funeral for Lewis, who played an instrumental role in passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, came on the same day Republican President Donald Trump suggested the Nov. 3 election could be delayed. Trump has also waged a war against mail-in ballots, a tactic critics say is aimed…
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Jul
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Crossing the Alabama bridge for final time

Crossing the Alabama bridge for final time

WORLD
CHRIS ALUKA BERRY  THE body of civil rights icon John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, decades after his "Bloody Sunday" beating there drew a national spotlight to the struggle for racial equality. A military honor guard carried his American flag-draped casket from Brown Chapel AME Church to a horse-drawn carriage, which crossed the rose-petal strewn bridge where the battering of Lewis by a white state trooper during a voting rights demonstration in 1965 became a focal point of the movement. The carriage driver wore black top hat and a white face mask to guard against spread of…
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Jul
18
2020
By The African Mirror
U.S. civil rights pioneer, congressman John Lewis dies

U.S. civil rights pioneer, congressman John Lewis dies

WORLD
PATRICIA ZENGERLE JOHN Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, has died. Lewis, a member of Congress from Atlanta who had announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, was 80. "He loved this country so much that he risked his life and his blood so that it might live up to its promise," former President Barack Obama said in a statement. "And through the decades, he not only gave all of himself to the cause of freedom and justice but inspired generations that followed to try to live…
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