AM Joy, July 18, 2020



Show Duration: 1 Hour 53 Minutes



Today, Joy DEDICATES her show to honoring the life of John Lewis, may he Rest In Peace. ♥



Discussed Today:

John Lewis’ life inspires U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock

John Lewis as civil rights hero remembered by Sen. Cory Booker

John Lewis’ relationship with Barack Obama remembered by Capehart

John Lewis remembered by Rev. Dr. William Barber

‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ producer on late civil rights icon

John Lewis’ religion drove his civil rights work biographer says

John Lewis remembered by voting rights activist in song

John Lewis, C.T. Vivian remembered for civil rights legacies

John Lewis as a young civil rights fighter remembered

John Lewis remembered by Eleanor Holmes Norton



Discussed Today In Detail:



John Lewis’ life inspires U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock

The late Rep. John Lewis’ life is held up as an example by U.S. Senate candidate

Raphael Warnock who tells Joy Reid, ‘I am inspired by the conscience of John

Lewis and other leaders like him.’

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John Lewis as civil rights hero remembered by Sen. Cory Booker

John Lewis as a civil rights and voting rights hero is remembered by Sen. Cory

Booker who tells Joy Reid, ‘For John it wasn't about as King would say the

vitriolic words or violent actions of the bad people. So much for John was about

the silence and inaction of the good people.’

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John Lewis’ relationship with Barack Obama remembered by Capehart

John Lewis’ relationship with Barack Obama is remembered by MSNBC analyst

Jonathan Capehart who tells Joy Reid, ‘When President Obama gave Congressman

Lewis the Medal of Freedom, thereto the sweep of history, that right there shows

the capacity of this country for greatness, and it should also give us hope in

this moment that we are in.’

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John Lewis remembered by Rev. Dr. William Barber

John Lewis, a Civil Rights Movement hero, is remembered by Rev. Dr. William

Barber who tells Joy Reid, ‘If you really want to honor John Lewis… right now we

should pass full healthcare.’

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‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ producer on late civil rights icon

‘Rep. Lewis talked about the vote... He was there to show you have to protect

and nurture it. That democracy is a moving target,’ Erika Alexander, producer of

the new streaming documentary ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ tells Joy Reid.

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John Lewis’ religion drove his civil rights work biographer says

John Lewis’ religion drove his civil rights work biographer Jon Meacham says,

telling Joy Reid, ‘Lewis believed... if we got our hearts and minds in the right

place... we'd create a world where justice comes down like waters and

righteousness like a mighty stream.’

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John Lewis remembered by voting rights activist in song

John Lewis is remembered by voting rights activist LaTosha Brown in song, as she

discusses continuing the legacy of the late Civil Rights Movement icon.

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John Lewis, C.T. Vivian remembered for civil rights legacies

John Lewis and C.T. Vivian are remembered for their iconic civil rights legacies

by the Rev. Mark A. Thompson.

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John Lewis as a young civil rights fighter remembered

Rep. John Lewis has passed away leaving behind a rich legacy in the areas of

Civil Rights, voting rights, and as a humanitarian. Historian Michael Beschloss

joins Joy Reid with a little-known story about this giant of American history.

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John Lewis remembered by Eleanor Holmes Norton

John Lewis is remembered by Delegate to U.S. House of Representatives Eleanor

Holmes Norton, as she tells Joy Reid about the civil rights icon’s time as a

young activist, and then on Capitol Hill.

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