Former president Barack Obama gave a searing eulogy for John Lewis, urging Americans to honor the legacy of a civil rights giant by engaging in the "good trouble" that leads to a more perfect democracy in the face of powerful institutions that seek to oppress. |
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Former president Barack Obama attended the funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church, a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape US civil rights history, and was expected to address mourners. Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush and former first lady Laura Bush were also in the church. |
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By JEFF MARTIN, Associated Press. ATLANTA John Lewis was mourned, revered and celebrated as an American hero 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.... |
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Former president Barack Obama attended the funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church, a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape US civil rights history, and was expected to address mourners. Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush and former first lady Laura Bush were also in the church. |
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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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at the age of 80. “He always believed in preaching the Gospel in word and in deed, insisting that hate and fear had to be answered with love and hope,” former President George W. Bush said from the pulpit. Former President Bill Clinton also honored Lewis at Thursday's funeral, recalling the late.... |
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Former President Barack Obama was delivering the eulogy for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Thursday afternoon, capping off a day of heartfelt tributes to honor the legacy of the civil rights icon and the example he set for America to keep marching toward racial justice and a more perfect union. |
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ATLANTA >> John Lewis was mourned, revered and celebrated as an American hero today 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.... |
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"I’ve come here today because I like so many Americans owe a great debt to John Lewis and his forceful vision of freedom," former President Barack Obama said. Lewis was "a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance," Obama said. "He always believed in preaching the Gospel in word and in deed,.... |
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Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has died after a month-long battle with COVID-19. He was 74. A post on Cain's Twitter account on Thursday morning announced the death. Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks. It's not clear when or where he was infected, but he was.... |
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ATLANTA (AP) When John Lewis is mourned, revered and celebrated at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday, he will return to a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history. The arc of Lewis’ legacy of activism will once again be tied to Ebenezer's former pastor Martin Luther King Jr. |
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