WABE’s Week In Review: Remembering John Lewis, Muhammad Ali’s Atlanta Connection And Freshwater Mussels
July 17, 2021 marks one year since the passing of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.
“I saw him ready for duty,” said Civil Rights pioneer Xernona Clayton. “… bravely weathering the storm, trying to decide what’s next… getting marching orders from Martin Luther King.”
You can get more on WABE’s coverage of John Lewis here.
And just hours before Lewis died July 17, 2020, fellow civil rights hero C.T. Vivian also passed away.
Vivian was a lieutenant of Martin Luther King, Jr., and was the first civilian African American man to lay in state at the Georgia Capitol.
Ali and Atlanta…
One of the indelible images of Ali late in his life happened in Atlanta 25 years ago this month, when he lit the flame at the start of the 1996 Olympic games.
Georgia’s tiny mussels are very important…
Few places in the world rival the number of fish, crayfish and mussel species that live in the rivers and streams of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. Many of those species only live in the rivers here, and nowhere else on the planet.
Mussels — which if people think about them much at all, it’s probably to think about them steamed and served on a plate — are important to the health of rivers. As filter feeders, they suck up algae and bacteria in the water.
Also in this episode…
–Roxanne Scott has more on the tens of thousands of Hispanics who are eligible to vote but not registered.
–Susanna Capelouto has more on an investigative report alleging the lack of transparency inside the Kemp administration’s COVID-19 response.
–Christopher Alston reported on the Atlanta Dream winning humanitarian team of the year by ESPN.
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