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John Lewis: Good Trouble [Available on various VOD platforms, including YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Apply TV, Google Play, and Fandango Now.] A powerful, engaging, educational, inspirational, thought-provoking, timely, poignant, 96-minute documentary that examines the outstanding, inspirational 60-year career of well-respected, Alabama-born Georgia congressman and rights activist John Robert Lewis who was driven by a need to fix social, racial, and economic problems that must be addressed that lead to a career of getting into "good trouble" (for example, he was arrested approximately forty times for his activism and was severely beaten in 1965 while marching on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Al., to gain voting rights for Black Americans) and used his influence to pass laws on gun control, health care reform, immigration, civil rights, and voting rights and consists of archival film clips and photographs and commentary by House of Representatives (such as Elijah Cummings [MA], Ayannna Pressley [MA], Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [NY], Ilhan Omar [MN], house majority whip James E. Clyburn [SC], Mike Kelly [PA], Rashida Tlaib [MI], and Sheila Jackson [TX]), former press secretary Anthony Johnson, chief of staff Michael Collins, University of Virginia Law School professor George K. Yin, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, civil rights activists (such Bernard Lafayette Jr., Diane Nash, and Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.), Conservative Political Strategist Paul Weyrich, Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Sensenbrenner, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, freedom singer Charles Neblett, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics Executive Director Noah Bookbinder, Legislative Director Jamila Thompson, Communications Director Brenda Jones, friend of wife Lillian Miles Lewis Xernona Clayton, senator Cory Booker (NJ), former state senator and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) cofounder Julian Bond, former receptionist Ruth Berg, Executive Assistant and Scheduler Ruth Riley, Senior Constituent and External Affairs Liaison Rachelle O'Neil, and family, including sisters Ethel and Risa Lewis-Tyner, brothers Samuel and Henry Lewis, and son John Miles Lewis.
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