The portrait in the background of this Reuters photo is of Sen Charles Sumner, who was beaten nearly to death in the chamber by a Southern congressman who resented a speech Sumner gave attacking slaveholders. The Civil War started 5 years later
So many appalling images from last night’s mayhem in USA but nothing worse than this. President Trump’s shameful legacy will now be that a confederate flag was raised inside the US Capitol building for the first time ever. It didn’t happen even during the Civil War. Horrifying.
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87 years old.
RIP John Lewis, 80.
Civil rights icon, 17-term US Congressman, and a great American.
He walked his talk:
'If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.'
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