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Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis Announces He Has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer

Jamaire LewisDecember 29, 2019December 29, 201902 mins

US Democratic Representative of Georgia, John Lewis, has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer after a routine medical visit with test that confirmed the diagnosis, his office announced Sunday. According to CNN, the 79-year old Civil Rights icon will undergo treatment for the cancer. “I have been in some kind of fight — for…

Elijah Cummings, Baltimore Congressman And Civil Rights Leader Dead At 68

Jamaire LewisOctober 17, 2019October 17, 201905 mins

Representative Elijah Cummings, of Baltimore, died early Thursday morning at the age of 68. According to his office, Cummings passed away at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 2:45 a.m. from “complications concerning longstanding health challenges. The congressman hadn’t returned to work after having a medical procedure that he said would only keep him away for about…