July 18, 2020
Man of Peace and Justice: John Lewis
In these most challenging times for our nation, we have lost an icon in the struggle for racial justice in America. By Jonathan Pearson Photo of John Lewis in 1965 by Stanley Wolfson, World Telegram staff photographer / Public domain The Peace Corps community mourns the loss of Congressman John Lewis, who died today. As a very young man in the early 1960s, Lewis pushed the boundaries and fought against power used unjustly. He never, ever stepped away from speaking truth to power. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of how the “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends...