Today, the world will say goodbye to late Congressman John Lewis for the last time. Front and center will be one of his most fierce and well-known admirers, former President Barack Obama. The 44th ...

Former President Barack Obama eulogized civil rights icon John Lewis on Thursday before the late congressman’s body was laid to rest in Atlanta, drawing a comparison between the battles Lewis ...

Obama delivers eulogy for John Lewis, makes impassioned call for voting rights 40:03. On Thursday afternoon, Representative John Lewis was laid to rest in Atlanta, where he lived and served as a ...

Iconic lawmaker John Lewis will serve as a beacon of "dignity and respect" in American culture for generations, former President Barack Obama said Thursday at his funeral in Atlanta. "He believed ...

Former President Barack Obama delivered a eulogy today honoring Representative John Lewis of Georgia, who died July 17 after a decades-long career in the House of Representatives.

Former President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at John Lewis’s funeral in Atlanta on Thursday, calling Mr. Lewis an “American whose faith was tested again and again to produce a man of ...

Remarks of President Barack Obama Eulogy for John Lewis Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia July 30, 2020 As Delivered. James wrote to the believers, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and ...

President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Carolyn ...

Here is what President Obama said of Rep. Lewis, in full: “There’s a quote inscribed over a doorway in Nashville, where students first refused to leave lunch counters 51 years ago this February.

Former President Barack Obama speaks during the funeral of late Congressman John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives who died ...

ATLANTA — Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, paid tribute Thursday to Rep. John Lewis as one of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement who made it possible for him to become ...

Former President Barack Obama gives the eulogy at the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) at Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 30, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia. Alyssa Pointer/Getty Images ...