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Rae Lewis-Thornton is an Emmy award winning AIDS Activist, Author, Award Winning Blogger, Social Media Expert, Jewelry Designer and Tea Connoisseur.
Rae Lewis-Thornton, 1962–AIDS activist, Worked on Political Campaigns, Went Public About AIDS Health, Declined then Improved Sources.

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Rae Lewis-Thornton is an Emmy Award winning AIDS Activist. She rose to national acclaim when she told her story of living with HIV/AIDS in a cover story to Essence Magazine. In the past twenty- two years, she has traveled worldwide in an unending crusade in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Rae Lewis-Thornton has been featured in countless magazines such as, Glamour, O-The Oprah Magazine, Woman’s Day, Essence, Jet, Ebony, Emerge, Black Excellence, Heart and Soul, WOE, Poz and The Crisis, as well as, many newspaper outlets, such as The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, to name a few. She received an Emmy Award for an on-going series of first-person news reports on her life of Living With AIDS, for CBS-Chicago. She has been featured on national television and on line shows such as, Huffington Post Live, TV One, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline with Ted Koppel in a news article Rae’s Story, AIDS the next Wave and AIDS 25 years in review with Ted Koppel. She has also been on Dateline, Black Entertainmen

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Rae Lewis-Thornton is an Emmy Award winning AIDS activist and renown social justice advocate. Rae received national acclaim for her story of living with HIV/AIDS in the Essence magazine December 1994 issue. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has requested to catalogue her groundbreaking Essence magazine cover. As the face of HIV/AIDS, she has been featured in Glamour, O The Oprah Magazine, Woman’s Day, Essence, Jet, Ebony, Emerge, Heart and Soul, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Tribune. Rae appeared on television and streaming shows including, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline, Dateline, BET, CNN, Vice News, HLN News, Huffington Post Live, and TV One. She is an ordained minister, award-winning blogger, author, and a tea connoisseur with a handmade knitting and jewelry accessory line, RLT Collection. Rae received an Emmy Award for her television series, Living with AIDS, a first-person chronicle on WBBM, CBS in Chicago. Rae earned a Master of Divinity Degree from McCormick Theological Seminary. She received a distinguished alumnae award fro

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Welcome to my world of books! As an pre-teen books changed my world. I fell in love with the writers of the Harlem Renaissance period and the more I read the more I wanted to read. The fiction of this period was powerful and empowering all at the same time. It spoke to my own degradation and gave me hope for a better tomorrow. It gave me purpose for my own life and the courage to fight the good fight and never surrender.

I love to read! Inside a book I escape into someone else's life. There is something wonderful about turning to the next page of a wonderful story. Something intoxicating about the smell of the book and the story it brings to life. Reading brings me joy, and these days with my health in the balance, I find solace in my books.

I spent hours in my bedroom sequestered with the door closed reading the classics from the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes, Larsen, Hurston, Wright and Baldwin. Books became my escape and my salvation. The fiction of this period was powerful and empowering all at the same time. It gave me purpose for my own life and the courage to fight the