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A community radio station hopes to expand its listenership when it launches on digital radio for the first time. Mearns FM, which recently celebrated its 10th year on air, will broadcast on DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) from July 27 after it successfully applied to Ofcom for a licence. |
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The civil-rights leader, who died Friday, acknowledged the darkest chapters of the country’s history, yet insisted that change was always possible.
John Robert Lewis was born in 1940 near the Black Belt town of Troy, Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers, and he grew up spending Sundays with a.... |
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It was almost immediately, and forever, overshadowed by the words of King, the man who had inspired him to activism. Humble principles. Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, outside the city of Troy in Pike County, Alabama. He grew up on his family's farm and attended segregated public schools. |
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Lewis's passion for civil rights had been ignited by, of all things, a comic book set against the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott that followed Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. "I remember back in the 1960s — late '50s, really — reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. |
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CEBU. In this file photo, Papal Nuncio Gabriele Giordano Caccia (third from left) and Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma (right) unveil the official logo of the quincentennial of the arrival of the Holy Image of the Sto. Niño in Cebu at the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño. The logo was designed by Ramesh Rosillo, a graphic artist based in Cebu. |
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“All of us were humbled to call Congressman Lewis a colleague, and are heartbroken by his passing,” Pelosi said. “May his memory be an inspiration that moves us all to, in the face of injustice, make ‘good trouble, necessary trouble.’” Lewis’s announcement in late December 2019 that he had been.... |
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© Provided by Associated Press FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, file photo, with the Capitol Dome in the background, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. |
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1 of 8 FILE - In this Thursday, May 10, 2007 file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, R-Ga., in his office on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. |
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“All of us were humbled to call Congressman Lewis a colleague, and are heartbroken by his passing,” Pelosi said. “May his memory be an inspiration that moves us all to, in the face of injustice, make ‘good trouble, necessary trouble.’” Lewis’s announcement in late December 2019 that he had been.... |
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FILE - In this March 7, 1965, file photo, a state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. Lewis sustained a fractured skull. |
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