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UPDATE:  Former President Barack Obama published a powerful tribute to John Lewis on Friday night (July 17).  In a post published on Medium titled “My Statement on the Passing of Rep. John Lewis,” Obama wrote, “I first met John when I was in law school, and I told him then that he …

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Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images) An updated lawsuit from Breonna Taylor’s family alleges that the 26-year-old was alive for several minutes after being shot multiple times by Louisville police officers in her home in March, but was given no assistance by the cops who had entered her home on a …

As tweets and messages pour in about the passing  of Congressman John Lewis, who passed away on Friday (July 17) of pancreatic cancer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has issued a statement in memory of the late civil rights icon. RELATED: New Doc ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ Celebrates The Living …

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Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights leader who served in Congress since 1987, has died after a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer, Friday. He was 80. Lewis was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer on December 2019 and underwent treatment while remaining in office. Lewis …

Adam Serwer: Civility is overrated On one level, what Stevens and others did was exactly what James Baldwin called on us to do a century later. “Not everything is lost,” Baldwin wrote after the collapse of the civil-rights movement. “Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one …

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Screenshot: NBC News The statistics about police shootings in the United States are horrifying: Despite a pandemic, when stay-at-home orders affected many cities and towns across the country, police shootings are on track with previous years. As of July 17, more than 1,000 people have been the victims of police …

I also knew, slightly, a woman whose appearance, in a leopard-skin miniskirt, was the most notable thing about the magazine’s cover photograph: Laura Ingraham, who had been a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and was then an attorney at a tony law firm. In the penultimate paragraph Atlas …