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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Representative John Lewis died Friday after a six-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

The civil rights icon was 80 years old. He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and served

as U.S. representative from Georgia's 5th District for 17 terms. He was awarded more than 50 honorary degrees

and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2011. The son of sharecroppers,

he spent Sundays growing up with a great-grandfather who was born into slavery. When Lewis was a few

months old, the manager of a chicken farm named

Jesse Thornton was lynched about 20 miles down the road. His offense, he referred to a police

officer by his first name, rather than as Mr. A mob pursued Thornton, stoned and shot him,

then dumped his body in a swamp. As a boy, Lewis decided

that he wanted to be a preacher. He earned a BA in religion and philosophy from Fisk University,

and graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville. However, when he was

15 years old, he heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preach on the radio

and felt that God was calling him to join the civil rights movement.

According to the New York Times, Lewis led demonstrations against racially segregated

restrooms, hotels, restaurants, public parks, and swimming pools,

and he rose up against other indignities of second-class citizenship. At nearly every turn,

he was beaten, spat upon, or burned with cigarettes. He was tormented by white mobs and

absorb body blows from law enforcement. During the Freedom Rides of

1961, the Times reports that Lewis was left unconscious in a pool of his own blood

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