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Very few people deserve to be called a hero. But, under any criteria, Congressman John Lewis is one of the great American heroes in our country’s history.
I first met John Lewis in 1966 at the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) office in Atlanta. I last saw him dancing two years ago in Tunica, Miss.
That Confederate emblem that haunted my childhood represented a heritage that brutalized, castrated, lynched and systematically oppressed the rights of my ancestors.
Growing up, I had heard about Mississippi. I saw the Confederate battle emblem displayed above and inside the government buildings on arrival.
J. Cole’s song “Snow on Tha Bluff,” caused controversy due to his critique of Noname’s tone after a tweet she made calling out rappers for their inactivity.
Filmmaker Philip Scarborough was raised amid “lost cause” mythology. Now he writes: “To be blunt, there is absolutely, positively nothing about the Confederacy worth memorializing or celebrating. Zero.”
Moving the monument should be a clear stand against racism, not another embarrassing attempt to placate those who wish to maintain the university’s connection to Confederate symbols
Rita Schwerner Bender stood on the lawn of the Philadelphia courthouse tackling rapid-fire questioning with the same iron-clad composure, poise and presence as she had done back in 1964 in Mississippi.
I know what it’s like to grow up without a father. I have no idea what it is like to have your father taken simply because he wanted civil and human rights.
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