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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 …

Tyler Perry is still giving back to his Atlanta community. The media mogul’s latest gifting opportunity came in the form of 1,000 Kroger gift cards that he handed out with the help of officers at the Atlanta Police Department. “This is about the community that I love, that I live …

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Tamar Braxton was hospitalized last night (July 16).  The Braxton family has now released a joint statement.  According to the New York Post, a spokesperson for the family stated, “Tamar has had a very tough and emotional day – more information will be coming in the next few days. Please pray …

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 …

The Government Oversight and Audit Committee of the Louisville Metro Council has passed an order to investigate the city’s mayor, Greg Fischer‘s, handling of Breonna Taylor’s death at the hands of police. The order, passed on Tuesday (July 14), will also investigate the death of David McAtee and the protests …