John Lewis Documentary Launches Voting Rights Campaign on Juneteenth

John Lewis announced on Thursday morning it is planning to close eight of its UK stores.Around 1,300 jobs are thought to be at risk as a result of the store closures.In a statement the company said: "Prior to the pandemic, the eight shops identified were already financially challenged and the pandemic has accelerated the switch from shopping in-store to online."Before the virus struck, 40 percent of John Lewis sales were online.

When the filmmakers behind “John Lewis: Good Trouble” were preparing for the release of the new documentary, there is no way they could have guessed how badly the world needed to hear the wisdom of the Civil Rights activist and politician at the center of the film.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLeading Black U.S. congressman John Lewis has joined “Ahimsa – Gandhi: The Power of the Powerless,” the upcoming documentary on non-violent political struggle.The film was produced to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth and tackles issues including race relations, the under-trodden members of society, and restoration of human rights.

increasingly popular petition seeking to have the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, renamed after Rep. John Lewis, who marched across it more than 50 years ago in a landmark moment for the civil rights movement.It would be a fitting testament to the man's legacy, which began before that Bloody Sunday on the bridge, marching alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and continues to this today through his work in Congress.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterJohn Lewis has always been fighting for civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. He’s been doing it for over 60 years so to say that his narrative is relevant more now than ever is a wild understatement.In the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, director Dawn Porter (Trapped, Gideon’s Army) chronicles Lewis’s life via interviews with the 80-year-old advocate who is just as active now as he was 60 years ago.

coronavirus lockdown in March this year. But shoppers in Glasgow and Edinburgh will be able to visit John Lewis once again as the company earmarks July 13 for the reopening of both stores.

Mirror Money."As difficult as it is, it is highly unlikely we will reopen all our John Lewis stores.

Getting into “good trouble” is a guiding principle for John Lewis. It's not only OK, but necessary to enact and inspire meaningful change.

tweeted DuVernay of naming the bridge for Lewis rather than Pettus, a senior officer in the Confederate army who later became a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.And the petition about the bridge is just one of many ways in which “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” which opens this week on VOD and in some theaters, is of-the-moment.

Tomris Laffly With an overdue reckoning on racism happening nationwide thanks to the renewed #BlackLivesMatter movement, it’s hard to imagine someone whose legacy would warrant a more urgent cinematic tribute than John Lewis, a true American civil rights icon. Currently serving his 17th term as a member of Congress, the 80-year-old U.S.