Aug 29, 2020 | ¡Presente!
by Max Hess My first encounter with John Lewis? When I moved from California to Georgia in the early 1990s. I had been living in Nancy Pelosi’s district and didn’t know to whose district I had moved. The LA uprising, following the police brutality against Rodney King,...
Aug 17, 2020 | ¡Presente!, Civil Rights
This reflection is part of FOR’s ¡Presente! series, honoring the lives of John Lewis, C.T. Vivian and other civil rights movement icons. by Jack Payden-Travers “You’re an embarrassment!” he shouted as he came across the street. “To your race” is the part of the phrase...