“Our world mourns.”
Those were the first words of a tweet from Atlanta Hawks head coach Lloyd Pierce on Saturday morning, the day after civil rights leaders John Lewis and C.T. Vivian died.
Lewis was one of the first staples in the community Pierce met when the franchise hired him in 2018.
“Last night, our city and country lost one of its heroes and most important civil rights icons who was highly regarded for his nearly six decades of social activism and getting into ‘good trouble,’” the Hawks wrote in a statement.