{"id":149836,"date":"2025-07-23T19:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149836"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:57:07","slug":"do-something-rep-john-lewis-family-touched-by-day-of-action-protests-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149836","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;Do something&#8217;: Rep. John Lewis&#8217; family touched by Day of Action protests across the country&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/article\/alabama-john-lewis-protest-ice-raid-deportation-medicaid\/65442942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WVTM13<\/a>: &#8220;Protests across the country and in Central Alabama wrapped up Thursday to pay tribute to a man known for causing &#8220;good trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Thursday marked five years since Rep. John Lewis died. His family is touched by knowing his legacy is still being carried on and his remarkable life is still being celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Protests in Birmingham and 1,600 other communities across the country were a direct response to the federal government\u2019s controversial policies, such as mass deportation and cuts to programs benefiting low-income people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Armmon Carter said commemorating his first cousin is a reminder of where this country is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cGetting in a &#8216;good trouble,&#8217; being a voice standing up for those who don\u2019t have a voice, not being afraid to be controversial to get a point across to help those who need help,\u201d Carter said. \u201cGetting in trouble \u2014 it\u2019s a phrase that means so much, but it\u2019s so simple, right? If you see something that\u2019s not right, stand up. Do something. No matter what. Even if that may negatively impact you in the short term, you got to think about the long-term goal.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WVTM13: &#8220;Protests across the country and in Central Alabama wrapped up Thursday to pay tribute to a man known for causing &#8220;good trouble.&#8221; Thursday marked five years since Rep. John Lewis died. His family is touched by knowing his legacy is still being carried on and his remarkable life is still being celebrated. Protests in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149837,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149836\/revisions\/149837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}