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July 30, 2020 at 2:12 pm CDT By By JEFF MARTIN ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis' example and fight injustice. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at.... |
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Crucial quote. “As a boy John listened through the door after bedtime as his father’s friends complained about the [Ku Klux] Klan,” recalled Obama. “One Sunday as a teenager he heard Martin Luther King preach on the radio. John Lewis was getting something inside his head. |
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John Lewis was mourned, revered and celebrated on Thursday at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies after nearly a week of mourning that took him from his birthplace in Alabama to.... |
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By Jeff Martin | Associated Press. ATLANTA — John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis’ example and fight injustice. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at Atlanta’s Ebenezer.... |
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ATLANTA John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis’ example and fight injustice. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church after nearly a week of.... |
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You know, this country is a constant work in progress. We're born with instructions, to form a more perfect union. Explicit in those words is the idea that we're imperfect. That what gives each new generation purpose is to take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further than any might have thought possible. |
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ATLANTA —Herman Cain, former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a major pizza chain who went on to become an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 74. A post on Cain’s Twitter account on Thursday announced the death. Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks. |
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ATLANTA —Herman Cain, former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a major pizza chain who went on to become an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 74. A post on Cain’s Twitter account on Thursday announced the death. Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks. |
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ATLANTA - John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis’ example and take action in the face of injustice. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church.... |
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recalled how Lewis' body was lying in state at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week, and a double rainbow appeared. “There was this double rainbow over the casket," she said. “He was telling us, ‘I'm home in heaven, I'm home in heaven.' We always knew he worked on the side of angels, and now he is with them. |
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