John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia’s 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Lewis served as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966.

Lewis was one of the “Big Six” leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington and the last surviving one at the time of his death. He fulfilled many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. In 1965, Lewis led the Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In an incident which became known as Bloody Sunday, armed Alabama police attacked unarmed civil rights demonstrators, including Lewis, Hosea Williams, and Amelia Boynton. [Read more…]

War is the catalyst for terrorism. It creates resentment which leads to terrorist cells and organizations. The act of war creates an endless amount of enemies which leads to never ending conflicts.

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We Lost A True Warrior In Elijah Cummings

Elijah Eugene Cummings (January 18, 1951 – October 17, 2019) was an American politician and the member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Maryland’s 7th congressional district.

The district includes just over half of the city of Baltimore, most of the majority-black precincts of Baltimore County, as well as most of Howard County.

He previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates. He was a loving husband, father, activist, life long Baltimore resident, a member of the Democratic Party and chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

On October 17, 2019, Cummings died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at the age of 68 from, his spokeswoman stated, “complications concerning longstanding health challenges”.

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