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Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero'

By CALVIN WOODWARD
Jul 18, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very beginning - when he was just a kid wanting to b...
John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

By CALVIN WOODWARD and DESIREE SEALS
Jul 18, 2020 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, ...
Rep. John Lewis remembered for legacy of 'good trouble'

By The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2020 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday at age ...
Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero'

By CALVIN WOODWARD
Jul 18, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very beginning - when he was just a kid wanting to b...
Phyllis Somerville, actor of stage and screen, dies at 76

The Associated Press
Jul 17, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Phyllis Somerville, an actor with a lengthy career of roles in film, television and Broadway productions, has died. She was 76. Somerville's manager Paul...
Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95

By DESIREE SEALS and MICHAEL WARREN
Jul 17, 2020 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocatin...
Veteran foreign correspondent Christopher Dickey dies at 68

The Associated Press
Jul 17, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Christopher Dickey, a veteran foreign correspondent and author who was a Paris-based editor for The Daily Beast, has died. The Daily Beas...
John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

By Calvin Woodward Associated Press
Jul 17, 2020 1:00 am - ATLANTA - John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and w...
Former Phillies All-Star infielder Tony Taylor dies at 84

The Associated Press
Jul 16, 2020 7:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Tony Taylor, a former Philadelphia Phillies infielder and coach, died Thursday. He was 84. The Phillies said in a statement that Taylor died from com...
'Magic School Bus' author Joanna Cole dies at age 75

The Associated Press
Jul 15, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Author Joanna Cole, whose 'œMagic School Bus'ť books transported millions of young people on extraordinary and educational adventures, has died at age 75...

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