Three former presidents came together to honor Congressman John Lewis at his funeral in Atlanta on Thursday, completing a week of memorial services for the longtime lawmaker and civil rights icon.
When John Lewis is mourned, revered and celebrated at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, he returns to a sacred place in civil rights history.
The body of the late Rep. John Lewis has arrived at the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers gather to pay tribute to the long-time Georgia lawmaker and icon of the civil rights movement.
The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis has crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon.
Georgia Democrats will sift through over 100 applications Monday to decide who will replace Rep. John Lewis on the November ballot.
John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died.
Democratic congressman John Lewis says advanced pancreatic cancer is one more fight he'll take on and that he will continue to serve in the House as he undergoes treatment.
Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the civil rights leader's family and admirers were marking the anniversary of his death with marches, speeches and quiet reflection Wednesday.
As Americans celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leaders and activists are trying to reconcile the transition from the nation's first black president to a president-elect still struggling to connect with most non-white voters.
House Democrats have ended their 25½-hour sit-in on the chamber's floor that they've been staging to demand votes on gun control.