Living legend John Lewis coming to Rhode Island
Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a living legend of the Civil Rights Movement, is coming to the Ocean State to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Providence chapter of the NAACP, according to a...
View ArticleShout down at Brown: what would John Lewis do?
Speaking of civil disobedience, Congressman John Lewis will be in Providence on Friday and I can hardly wait to ask the this living legend of the struggle for civil rights what he thinks of the...
View ArticleCicilline, Langevin join ‘sit-in’ on House floor to force vote on guns
Rhode Island’s congressmen David Cicilline and Jim Langevin joined John Lewis and other Democrats in a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives to force Republicans to hold a vote on...
View ArticleLed by Cicilline and Lewis, Dems shut down House of Representatives
Congressional Democrats shut down the U.S. House of Representatives by staging a sit-in on the floor that lasted more than 12 hours, led to disarray and physically prevented Speaker Paul Ryan from...
View ArticleCicilline, Langevin hold gun safety ‘sit-in’ Wed in PVD
Following on their successful sit-in action last week on the House floor to call attention to gun violence in America, Rhode Island congressmen David Cicilline and Jim Langevin are hosting a local...
View ArticleRep. Justin Price denies his anti-protest bill is an anti-protest bill
Justin Price If passed, Representative Justin Price‘s bill, H5690, “would provide that a person driving an automobile who is exercising due care and injures another person who is participating in a...
View ArticleJohn Lewis’ blunder shows off Brown’s naivete
Matt Brown, the upstart progressive challenging Governor Gina Raimondo in the Democratic primary this year, was quick to namedrop U.S. Rep. John Lewis when I interviewed him last month. Early on, we...
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