Remembering John Lewis

FAREWELL TO A FIGHTER. Brooklyn Boro’ President Eric Adams paying his respects to John Lewis, the US Congressman and iconic civil rights leader who died on July 17.

New York State AG, Letitia James and Brooklyn Boro’ President, Eric Adams, took time out of their very busy schedule to speak at a vigil in honor of the late congressman John Lewis, at the Black Lives Matter plaza in Harlem, on Sunday, July 19. 

According to published reports, Rep. John Lewis, the sharecroppers' son who became a giant of the civil rights movement, died Friday, July 17, after battling cancer, his family said. He was 80 years old.

The longtime Georgia congressman, an advocate of nonviolent protest who had his skull fractured by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, was the last surviving speaker from 1963's March on Washington.

THANK YOU, JOHN. NY State Attorney General Letitia James noted the legacy of the late Congressman in these challenging times.

-         Photos courtesy of Leonard McKenzie

Recognized as the ‘Conscience of Congress’, celebrations in remembrance of the late congressman, are taking place this week.

After being taken one final time across the bridge in Selma and lying in state at the capitol in Alabama, there will be another lie in state service on Wednesday in Atlanta, followed by a funeral service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, on Thursday.

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