The president announced today the winners of the Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.  Among those named was The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a true prophet who has never shied away from speaking truth to power.  From the White House news release: 

Reverend Lowery has been a leader in the U.S. civil rights movement since the early 1950s. Rev. Lowery helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks was denied a seat, and later co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a leading civil rights organization, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rev. Lowery led the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Rev. Lowery is a minister in the United Methodist Church, and has continued to highlight important civil rights issues in the U.S. and worldwide, including apartheid in South Africa, since the 1960s.

It is right that the president of the United States of America honor this true American hero.

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