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Rep. John Lewis’ Casket Travels Across The Historic Edmund Pettus Bridge One Last Time | MSNBC

July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 63 comments

Crowds honor the life and legacy of Rep. John Lewis as his casket travels over the Edmund Pettus Bridge one final time, 55 years after […]

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Alabama honors Rep. John Lewis (LIVE) | USA TODAY

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 No comments

Rep. John Lewis will be remembered at several ceremonies across his home state of Alabama this weekend. A memorial service for "The Boy from Troy" […]

Descendant Of Edmund Pettus: Rename The Bridge And Then ‘We Get To Work’ | The Last Word | MSNBC

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 30 comments

Caroline Randall Williams, great-great-granddaughter of Edmund Pettus, says renaming the bridge in Selma, Ala. for John Lewis would be a way to “put that bridge […]

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Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80

July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 74 comments

John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a […]

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Joy Reid On When She Knew Joe Biden Would Win Big In The South | MSNBC

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 72 comments

Joy Reid talks about her reporting on how Black voters in the South thought about how to vote in the Democratic primary, and tells the […]

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Watch Live: 2020 Democrats Speak At Selma Forum | MSNBC

March 1, 2020 33 comments

Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren participate in the Selma Presidential Forum, moderated by MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Rev. Mark Thompson. […]