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By Dana Bash, Jeremy Moorhead and Bridget Nolan, CNN . John Lewis has appointed a new HR boss as fears grow over a wave of job cuts. None of us who witnessed the meeting could keep from crying. Tybre is the only child of a single mother, whose grandmothers also play a big role in his upbringing.Morris was put in touch with Annarino, Tybre’s grandmother, who cried when she got the call and agreed to let Morris start a college fund for their grandson. Copyright 2020 Circle City Broadcasting I, LLC. | All Rights Reserved.Rep.
Over the years, I had the chance with John Lewis to spread the word that our world can be better — to find a way to get in the way — get into good trouble. We were there covering the annual civil rights pilgrimage that Lewis led when we saw Tybre standing outside a church where Lewis was attending a service.
I felt blessed to be there. (CNN) — Before three US presidents, before the House speaker and other dignitaries, longtime friends and cohorts in “good trouble” took the pulpit at John Lewis’ funeral, a 12-year-old boy stood to recite the late congressman’s favorite poem, “Invictus.”That the Lewis family chose young Tybre, who met the man he calls his hero in Selma two years ago, to read a poem Lewis’ sister remembers her brother reading around the house was the embodiment of his legacy.The words of the poem Lewis loved when he was Trybre’s age are almost a prophecy to the pain he endured as a leader in the civil rights movement.“John Lewis was my hero, my friend. He wants to be a congressman and follow in the footsteps of the late John Lewis.”“We can’t afford this light to burn out before it has a chance to shine,” Morris added.Tybre’s love of history — especially the civil rights movement — was born in third grade when his music teacher, Laura Evans, had her students put on a play about After learning about King and other civil rights leaders, and then learning that Lewis was still alive, living in Atlanta and serving in Congress, Tybre asked his grandmothers to take him to Atlanta.“Tybre asked, ‘Will you take me there so he can shake my hand?
John Lewis organized a mission trip to Memphis, Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma on a pilgrimage that was set up through the Faith and Politics to bring awareness to the Civil Rights Journey --- Republicans, Dems, independents, children, and young adults would embark on a journey to learn about MLK (where he gave his last speech in Memphis) and the struggle for voting rights. I felt blessed to be there. '” recalled Annarino.The Atlanta trip didn’t work out, but they realized that Lewis would soon be making his annual visit to Selma to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 march for voting rights where Lewis was almost clubbed in the head to death by police Tybre’s grandmothers agreed to take him to Selma, where his persistence and his grandmothers’ seven-hour drive paid off.After meeting Lewis, and walking across the bridge with him that day in 2018, Tybre dove into activism, marching for everything from school safety to human rights to children at the border — all the while staying in touch with Lewis.Tybre even joined Lewis later that year in Atlanta for the March for Our Lives.But it was his two subsequent trips with Lewis on his civil rights pilgrimage in 2019 and this year — Lewis’ last — that cemented their magical friendship.Tybre didn’t only return to Selma with Lewis, he attended the whole tour, which included other infamous sites like the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which the KKK He asked his grandmothers to take him on other historical trips during his vacations — from Boston to see the Freedom Trail, to the Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina where African Americans sat demanding service and equality.On February 21, Tybre FaceTimed with Lewis to wish him a happy birthday.The congressman had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer two months earlier, and it was unclear if he would make it to Selma in March, where Tybre already knew he would be.Lewis did make what ended up being his final journey across the bridge, but people were largely kept away from the congressman because of his illness, so Tybre and his grandmothers didn’t think the two would connect.But as Lewis was getting into his car to leave, the same Capitol Police officers who were there for the congressman’s first encounter with Tybre spotted him in the crowd, and brought him over to Lewis.With the coronavirus already spreading and social distancing beginning, the two shared an elbow bump instead of a hug.
John Lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death. Nikki Humphrey will preside over the partnership’s 80,000 staff when she takes the role in … Before three US presidents, before the House speaker and other dignitaries, longtime friends and cohorts in “good trouble” took the pulpit at John Lewis’ funeral, a 12-year-old boy stood to recite the late congressman’s favorite poem, “Invictus.”That the Lewis family chose young Tybre, who met the man he calls his hero in Selma two years ago, to read a poem Lewis’ sister remembers her brother reading around the house was the embodiment of his legacy.The words of the poem Lewis loved when he was Trybre’s age are almost a prophecy to the pain he endured as a leader in the civil rights movement.“John Lewis was my hero, my friend. Morris put up a In a lengthy post on that page, Morris wrote that Tybre is “a shining light in a dark time” and that “he wants to grow up and make a difference. Even Capitol Police officers there — trained to be stoic — were unable to hold back their tears.It was one of the most powerful moments any of us had ever witnessed, and we all knew it.We played video of that moment during one of our on-air reports Saturday morning after Lewis died, and Nathan Morris of the musical group Boyz II Men saw it, was moved to tears himself, and contacted us asking about Tybre.Morris texted back after watching the story asking whether Tybre had a college fund, saying, “That boy has to be afforded the chance to be successful!”The answer was no. He held a sign that read, “Thank you Rep. John Lewis. He will always be my hero.”© 2020 Circle City Broadcasting I, LLC. It turned out to be the last time Tybre got to see his idol and mentor.After Lewis died Friday, Tybre said “neither the world nor I will ever be the same after losing John Lewis — my heart hurts.”“The first year I met John Lewis I never thought I’d have the opportunity to meet someone who had so much courage. Tybre is the only child of a single mother, whose grandmothers also play a big role in his upbringing.We put Morris in touch with Annarino, Tybre’s grandmother, who cried when she got the call and agreed to let Morris start a college fund for their grandson. You have shown me how to have courage.”When we talked to Tybre, we learned that he had asked his grandmothers to drive him seven hours from his Johnson City home to Selma in the hopes of meeting the man mentioned in the books about the civil rights movement that the boy regularly checked out from the library and devoured.We connected Tybre and his grandmothers to Lewis’ staff and they brought him to the back entrance of the church where the congressman would be exiting.Tybre’s eyes welled up with tears the minute he saw Lewis, who came over, read the sign and hugged him as he spoke quietly to the boy who hung on every word.
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