Browsing: Civil Rights Icon

After having his dreams crushed by an ill-equipped, insensitive, racist  high school  counselor, Al never returned to Textile High in Manhatten, but always industrious, found gainful employment which led to marriage and children, a daughter and son. Determined to be a good father, his children both attended private school in Greenwich Village, providing a trajectory toward achieving academic success, his daughter at Vasser  College and the  Johns Hopkins  School of Advanced Studies in Bologna, Italy where she  studied economics and urban development and learned to speak  fluent French and Italian. His son received a basketball scholarship to the University of South Carolina but felt slighted by a coach, who for political reasons, didn’t always start his best players.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today sadly mourns the death of United States Representative John Lewis (D-GA), an icon in the civil rights movement. His family announced his passing in a statement Friday evening, noting Congressman Lewis was “…honored and respected as the conscience of the US Congress and an icon of American history, … a stalwart champion in the on-going struggle to demand respect for the dignity and worth of every human being.