Civil Rights Giant Home from Hospital

By BET.com published on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 and is filed under Nation. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., founded one of the nation’s most enduring civil rights organizations, was released from the hospital Monday after nearly fainting follow his sermon at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. “I just got overheated,” Lowery told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his home. “The doctor did tell me to slow down, though. I’m going to slow down, but it’s hard. Nobody respects my retirement, and I don’t insist. You have to be grateful folks still want you around.” Read the rest.

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