John Lewis Who Never Stopped Fighting for Civil Rights Dies at 80
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“Arming Black Millennials the New York With Information" “Arming Black Millennials with Information" 75 Cents Vol. 27 No. 29 July 23 – July 29, 2020 website: NewYorkBeacon.com “GIVE UNTIL YOU CANNOT GIVE ANY MORE” John Lewis who never stopped fighting for civil rights dies at 80 Rep John Lewis was beaten in the head with billy clubs and bled as he and others marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in protest of voter suppression . Five months later Pres Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, page 3 2 Clarence Thomas’ wife asks China vows to retaliate after Trump Virginia Mayor to remove signs Hong Kong sanctions bill Black Lives Matter banner By Steven Lee Myers have become intertwined with Hong Kong’s semiautono- the American presidential mous status. By Victor Omondi hina on Wednesday election. His executive order, be- sharply criticized Pres- Mr. Trump said he had sides revoking the territory’s he wife to Supreme ident Trump’s moves to issued an executive order special trading status, calls Court Justice Clarence Cstrip Hong Kong of its prefer- revoking the special trading for sanctions against people Thomas asked Mayor ential trading status with the status that Hong Kong had deemed to have been involved TWilliam Holloway of Clifton, United States and clear the way enjoyed for more than two in a variety of acts in Hong Virginia in an email to remove for new sanctions on officials decades, following the Chinese Kong, including arrests made a Black Lives Matter banner. and companies there, vowing government’s imposition of a under the new security law The banner which reads to retaliate with punitive mea- sweeping new national securi- and actions that undermine “Welcome to Clifton, where sures of its own. ty law there. democratic processes or limit Black Lives Matter,” is dis- The response from the Min- The law came into force the news media’s freedoms. played over the Main Street, istry of Foreign Affairs in on June 30, and its chilling Officials in Beijing had a white-dominated town. Beijing promised to continue effect on political freedoms in clearly anticipated the moves, According to Thomas’ wife, a pattern of tit-for-tat pun- the city — which, under a for- but they reacted harshly none- Black Lives Matter is a group said. As such, they had to do ishments that have accompa- mula called “one country, two theless. that’s attempting to destabilize something right away to save nied the sharp downward turn systems,” is supposed to have a “The act on the United the nation. the situation. in relations between the two high degree of autonomy from States side maliciously deni- “Would you please remove Some people were shocked countries on a variety of fronts, China — has already been ev- grates Hong Kong’s national the BLM sign from Clifton?” to see the banner in the town. from trade to technology to ident in a series of arrests and security legislation, threatens she wrote to Holloway. “As A Professor of the School of human rights. police raids. to impose sanctions on China leaders of this community, you Global Journalism and Com- China was swift to criticize Mr. Trump also signed leg- and gravely violates interna- should be smarter than promot- munication at Morgan State Mr. Trump’s latest actions, islation, adopted overwhelm- tional law and basic rules of ing such a group as this, who University, Dr Jason Johnson, which he announced at a ram- ingly in May by Congress, international relations,” the uses race to foment chaos to said he was shocked to see the bling White House news con- that authorizes the adminis- Ministry of Foreign Affairs destabilize the nation.” sign in town at such a time. ference on Tuesday. Those tration to impose sanctions said in a statement posted on However, the Mayor said “I went to high school in moves, along with his re- on officials or institutions, Wednesday morning in China, he put up the banner to demon- Clifton Virginia,” Johnson marks, underscored the extent including banks, that were not long after Mr. Trump fin- strate unity with many U.S. wrote. “I’m waaaay more to which relations with Beijing found to have undermined ished speaking. citizens. Holloway, who also shocked that this banner was happens to be a lawyer, con- put up than I am about what sulted the community about Clarence Thomas’ wife thought it and most of them were in about it.” BEACON, July 23 – 29, 2020 newyorkbeacon.com support of his decision to post The Black Lives Matter the sign. Also, the Mayor ap- Movement was revived after proved the sign due to protests the brutal killing of George against racial injustice and po- Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and lice brutality that were taking other blacks. The death of place in the town, following innocent blacks in the hands the death of George Floyd. of police officers has sparked It was so chaotic that nationwide protests, and most one of Holloway’s legal of- companies have been forced fices “had all of its windows to join the movement or face smashed out of it,” the Mayor alienation by consumers. UK ‘95% sure’ Russian hackers tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research Trump: ‘Black Americans are killed Newyorkbeacon.com rity committee, Julian Lewis, from the party. he UK security minister “The National Cyber by police just like Whites’ James Brokenshire has Security Centre [NCSC] are By Victor Omondi “What a terrible question to said Britain is “more 95%-plus satisfied, as are our ask,” the President responded. Tthan 95%” sure that Russian US and Canadian counter- rump doesn’t admit that “So are white people. More state-sponsored hackers target- parts,” he said. “We are very African-Americans suf- white people, by the way.” ed UK, US and Canadian or- careful in terms of calling fer disproportionately While police officers kill ganisations involved in devel- these things out, ensuring that Tfrom police brutality. In an Americans, statistics show oping a coronavirus vaccine. we can have that confidence in interview with CBS News, that African-Americans are Brokenshire said the Na- attribution. We do believe that the President made startling killed at higher rates. Based tional Cyber Security Centre we have this here. remarks about the Confederate on a federal study that ex- (NCSC) and its counterparts in “I think the Russian govern- flag, victims of police vio- amined the lethal force used sacked and probably burned the other countries were con- ment is being so hypocritical lence, and a recent confronta- by police from 2009 to 2012, down,” Mr. Trump said. fident “Russian intelligence claiming to support responsible tion in St. Louis, where a cou- the majority of victims were In a video of the incident, agencies” were responsible for behaviour in cyberspace while ple pointed guns at protesters. white, but the victims were none of the protesters is seen the attacks on drug companies secretly conducting cyber-at- When asked to comment disproportionately black. The threatening or attacking the and research groups. tacks like this and others.” about the killing of Blacks by fatality rate of the blacks at couple. This is just one of the During an interview with The comments come after police officers, the President the hands of police officers instances where Trump has BBC Radio 4’s Today pro- the NCSC said drug compa- said that white people are also was more than two times that openly refused to acknowledge gramme, Brokenshire also said nies and research groups were killed in their largest numbers. of white people. the racial injustice that even he supported the Conservative being targeted by a group The U.S. president responded In a separate interview pub- some of his party members feel chief whip’s decision to expel known as APT29, which it angrily to an issue that has lished on Tuesday by Town- should be addressed. the new chairman of parlia- said was part of the Kremlin’s led to nationwide protests, hall.com, Trump claimed that While the President re- ment’s intelligence and secu- intelligence services. demanding significant changes the white couple who con- cently retweeted a video of in law enforcement. fronted peaceful protesters in supporter shouting “white “Why are African-Amer- St. Louis was almost beaten power,” saying that he would icans still dying at the hands by the demonstrators and had oppose bipartisan effort to do of law enforcement in this their house set ablaze. away with Confederate names country?” Catherine Herridge “They were going to be from military bases, he’s not of CBS News asked the Pres- beaten up badly, and the house ready to bridge the racial gaps ident. was going to be totally ran- in the country. New York Beacon(USPA 011-156) serving metropolitan New York is published weekly by SmithHaj Group,Inc at 405 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10174. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY. POSTMASTER; send address changes to The New York Beacon 405 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10174. , Web Site: www.newyorkbeacon.com, Email: [email protected] for the newspaper, [email protected] for the web site. Subscription rate: $35.00 per year. Name change coming for Washington Rest in Sweet Peace 3 NFL and Cleveland MLB teams? John Lewis David N. Dinkins, 106th Mayor, City of New York n July 17th, the world lost one of its finest when John Lewis went Oon to his reward. John Lewis was an Amer- ican Hero like no other. He ascended as our young leader in the Civil Rights Movement into a hero for all - all races, all BEACON, July 23 – 29, 2020 newyorkbeacon.com ages, and all creeds have stood on the broad, strong shoulders of this man for decades.