Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on July 26 for the last time, his flag-draped coffin carried on a horse-drawn carriage as befits a fallen hero. On a different ...

ATLANTA -- John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and ...

A slight breeze stirred in Decatur as people gathered outside the Historic DeKalb Courthouse on Saturday morning to pay homage to the late John Lewis, the congressman and civil rights icon who ...

The late Georgia lawmaker John Lewis was famously quoted as calling for “good trouble, necessary trouble” to fight injustice. Protesters who have been drawing ire with the Trump administration ...

Tens of thousands are expected to rally across all 50 states Thursday in honor of the late civil rights icon John Lewis. The nationwide day of action, called "Good Trouble Lives On," marks the fifth ...

A Georgia square that was home to a Confederate monument for more than a century will now host a statue of the late civil rights icon John Lewis. Authorities began installing the sculpture of the ...

The 12-foot-tall bronze statue of the civil rights leader was commissioned after Mr. Lewis died in 2020. It stands where a Confederate memorial was erected in 1908. By Amanda Holpuch A statue of John ...

Lewis, a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., battled pancreatic cancer. Rep. John Robert Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon, died Friday. He was 80 years old. Lewis passed seven ...

WASHINGTON ‒ It frustrates John Suttles that Congress has yet to pass a bill named after fellow civil rights veteran John Lewis. “They mean well,‘’ Suttles, 76, said of members of Congress who ...