John Lewis Wins the National Book Award for March: Three

Image from "March: Three" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell. 

The Nation reports that Jeff Sessions, whom #NotMyPresident will nominate for Attorney General of the United States, has a long record of wrongly prosecuting civil rights activists and making overtly racist (and misogynist) statements. Ari Berman writes, when he was nominated to be a Federal Judge: "Gerry Hebert, who worked in the Department of Justice’s Voting Section, told Congress that Sessions had called the NAACP and ACLU 'Communist-inspired' and 'un-American,' and labeled the white civil-rights lawyer Jim Blacksher 'a disgrace to his race.' Thomas Figures, a black assistant US Attorney in Mobile, said that Sessions had repeatedly referred to him as “boy.” Figures said he heard from colleagues that Sessions 'used to think [the KKK] were OK' until he learned that were 'pot smokers.' Sessions admitted to calling the [Voting Rights Act] a “piece of intrusive legislation.”

The alt right, white supremacists #NotMyPresident has surrounded himself with know that Sessions will roll back civil right and civil liberties and further attentuate the Voting Rights Act. 

Meanwhile, the hallowed Rep. John Lewis, along with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, was awarded the National Book Award for March, Lewis's graphic memoir of fighting for voting rights and civil rights that Sessions undermined with his legal authority. I offer you Lewis's moving acceptance speech:

You can listen to Rep. John Lewis interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show and read an excerpt of March: Three here.

Lucille Clifton vs. White Supremacists

The Huffington Post reports that Jeff Sessions, the man #NotMyPresident "Trump will nominate as the 84th attorney general of the United States was once rejected as a federal judge over allegations he called a black attorney 'boy,' suggested a white lawyer working for black clients was a race traitor, joked that the only issue he had with the Ku Klux Klan was their drug use, and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American” organizations trying to 'force civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them.'"

The KKK is a hate group, whose drug use is the least of their evil. They are killers, who wish to deprive civil and human rights to anyone who is not what they deem "white," heterosexual, and Christian.

In these darkening days of 2016, one of the poets who has been singing most loudly and profoundly in my soul is esteemed poet, Lucille Clifton. In love and in common cause, I offer this poem, "won't you celebrate with me," that sustains me, and hope will give you the courage to fight hate.