“As a young man marching for equality in Selma, Alabama, John answered brutal violence with courageous hope,” said former President George W. Bush. “And throughout his career as a civil rights leader and public servant, he worked to make our country a more perfect union.”
Former President Barack Obama, America’s first Black president, recalled being sworn in for his first term: “I hugged him on the inauguration stand before I was sworn in and told him I was only there because of the sacrifices he made.”
Lewis died Friday, several months after the Georgia Democrat announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.
Lewis, 80, often recalled his upbringing in the segregated South, including how he was denied a library card because the library was for “whites only.” He was determined to destroy segregation, joining with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to help plan the 1963 March on Washington.
Using a cutting-edge experimental therapy, doctors at a Bergen County hospital on Saturday injected cells from a placenta into a critically ill coronavirus patient, in the hope they will bolster his immune system and save his life.
It was believed to be the first time the procedure was performed in the United States to combat COVID-19, said Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck.
The cells, drawn from the human placenta, will hopefully aid the man’s immune response and could potentially also heal tissue damage to his lungs, said Drs. Ravit Barkama and Thomas Birch, who are clinical researchers at the hospital.
The otherwise relatively healthy 49-year-old man was hospitalized more than three weeks ago with shortness of breath and fever and has been on a ventilator in intensive care since March 20. His wife signed off on the emergency treatment, which was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration on Friday, the doctors said.
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Holy Name Medical Center on Saturday injected a critically ill coronavirus patient with cells from the placenta, an experimental therapy. Dr. Ravit Barkama, a clinical researcher at the Teaneck hospital, looks on through a window of the ICU as Dr. John Rundback administers the injections.Jeff Rhode
By day, John Pierre Burr worked as a barber. By night, he was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with individuals such as Harriet Tubman and Lucretia Mott to transport runaways to Canada. A new headstone unveiled over the weekend at Philadelphia’s Eden Cemetery honors his life accomplishments, and also shares something new: John Pierre, the updated epitaph reads, was the “Son of Vice-President Aaron Burr and Mary Eugenie Emmons.”
As Hannah Natanson reports for the Washington Post, that change comes thanks to Sherri Burr, a law professor at the University of New Mexico. The professor spent years delving into her forefather’s parentage, and last September, she presented her findings to the Aaron Burr Association. The group, which includes fellow descendants and history lovers, unanimously recognized John Pierre and his sister Louisa Charlotte as the children of founding father Aaron Burr. Their mother, Mary Eugenie Emmons, hailed from Calcutta, India, and worked as a servant in the Burr household.
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Aaron Burr (left) and his son, abolitionist John Pierre Burr (right) (Public domain)
A statement from her mum said the 24-year-old, who was eight months pregnant, had named her child Reign with her partner Boga.
No cause of death was revealed in the post.
The dancer and influencer, who lived in London, had kept fans up-to-date on her pregnancy, regularly posting videos on her YouTube channel and Instagram page.
Several videos Nicole had filmed before her death will be published on her YouTube channel, the statement confirmed.
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Social media star Nicole Thea has died along with her unborn son, her Instagram page has announced.
Actress Kelly Preston Dead at 57 The “Twins” star had been privately battling breast cancer for two years.Preston’s husband, John Travolta, took to social media to share the news. John Travolta, via Instagram Preston and Travolta, met in 1988 during a screen test for the film, “The Experts.” She is survived by Travolta, daughter Ella, and son Benjamin.
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