Celebrating John Lewis, a Beacon in Dark Times

“My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise,” John Lewis once recalled.

Lewis, who has served as U.S. Representative for Georgia’s fifth congressional district since the mid-80’s and has been called “the conscience of the U.S. Congress,” clearly didn’t heed his parents’ warning. The powerful noise he has made for the last several decades, his profound courage, his ability to stare down evil, is really what we honor tomorrow and every Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Read more.