Page 503 - Comic Book News Today

He wrote me back and sent me a round—trip bus ticket and invited me to come to montgomery to meet with him. so, in march of 1958, by this time i am 18 years old, and i saw martin luther king junior standing behind a desk. i was so scared. and doctor king spoke up and said, "are you john lewis? are you the boy from troy?" and from that day on he started calling me the boy from troy. we became friends. the author and playwright bonnie greerjoins us now. a sad day, the death ofjohn lewis, but wha...

And the congressman went down and they blocked the road i believe it was and they got arrested and i got a phone call from the capitol police. they said, you know, i think your boss forgot his bail money. and i remember having to run out of the office, rundown, literally down capitol hill, the road beside the capitol, sneak him $50 with one of the capitol police officers so he could bail himself out after the arrest and, you know, thats the sort of thing, he was more concerned about the event. h...

Gave all he had to redeem americas unmet promise of equality and justice for all. and president jimmy carter noted that john lewis made an indelible mark in history. he co-authored the trilogy called "march." how are you reflecting on the congressman today? >> it has been a lot of phone calls with friends. moments to tell stories. you know, you lose somebody like the congressman, theres a bubble you have. he created a space between all of us that we could joke, we could laugh, we could do hard

Board a greyhound bus together in washington, d.c. and travel through the south seated together, using the same restroom facility, in the same waiting room. make it so plain, make it so simp simple. its the violence. but people risked their lives. black and white citizens of our country beaten, arrested, jailed. almost 400 of us went to the state prison in the state of mississippi. in that summer those signs that said white waiting and colored waiting came tumbling down. >> his message still res...

Ago. it is commonly what we see on tv when hes down in the halls of congress. if you saw him walking by, if you saw him having a meal, he is this very thoughtful person that as has been described will stop and talk to you. what does that mean for the next generation? what often he would do the talk to young people. >> i had the pleasure of witnessing this as an alum of howard university. >> he would visit campus and be stopped by interns and stopped boy people just wanted to hear his words. you ...

All of us are raising funds for one goal: a world without alzheimers and all other dementia. because this disease isnt waiting, neither are you. take the first step on your walk right now. go to alz dot org slash walk. reinventing. its what with comcast business, your small business can work faster, with powerful internet from the nations largest gig-speed network. work safer, with all your connected devices automatically protected by securityedge. and work anywhere, with comcast business at hom...

Good saturday afternoon. congressman john lewis died last night at the age of 80. back am december, lewis announced he was receiving treatment for stage four pancreatic cancer. a few years ago in 2015 i spoke with the congressman about his fight for civil rights and graphic novels he wrote about that struggle. >> i grew up in rural alabama, 50 miles south of montgomery. i saw signs that said white men,

Your time and i know this was a great friend of yours so condolences to you. thanks very much. >> thanks, joy. bye. >> and joining me now is reverend rafael warnok. hes a candidate for a senate seat in the state of georgia. i want to give you the same opportunity to reflect on john lewis and t.c. vivians life and how they reflected to this moment. >> thank you so much, joy. its good to be here with you even on such a sad occasion. you know, as you were talking to ambassador young and then diane ...

The country, even if youre an african-american steeped in the history, this will flip the scripts on you. if it doesnt, try it. talk, secretary, about what it meant for us as black people to be honored in this way in the worlds most august collection of museums? thats an elevation of sorts that i think is kind of hard to quantify. >> i think it is important to remember that what we learned about john lewis is perseverance, resiliency. he introduced legislation for this museum almost 17 years. th...

Marchers were set upon and beat. lewis suffering a fractured skull it would be remembered as always as as bloody sunday. galvanized into law by president lyndon johnson. lewis never lost his young act it visit spirit. taking it from protest to politics, standing up for what he believed was right, lewis was arrested more than 40 times by police, according to his congressional office. >> im on my way and were going to win this race. >> reporter: he was elected to city council in atlanta, then to w...