He was 80 years old. “It is with inconsolable grief and enduring sadness that we announce the passing of U.S. Rep. John Lewis,” Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones said in a written statement early ...

Rep. John Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019 Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

Obama, 58, eulogized Lewis from the same pulpit, wearing a blue ribbon and a lapel pin with the late congressman's portrait. “The life of John Lewis was in so many ways exceptional," the former ...

Booker quoted John Lewis, the late civil rights icon and former Georgia congressman, as he spoke to Congress last week. Host Tia Mitchell talks to Michael Collins, who was Lewis’ chief of staff, about ...

a biographer is looking back on the life and career of civil rights activist and Georgia Representative John Lewis. According to a press release from Simon & Schuster, Rutgers University history ...

Property owners unexpectedly painted over multiple murals on University Laundry in Des Moines to prep the building for sale, ...

The former site of a Confederate memorial in Georgia now holds a statue of the late American civil rights leader and former congressman John Lewis. Crews lowered the statue of Lewis in downtown ...

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil ...

There is still time to protect voting rights. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., has already reintroduced, would ensure American citizens have an ...

Civil rights leader and Democratic Congressman John Lewis participates in the unveiling ceremony for the renaming of John Lewis Freedom Parkway in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 22 August 2018.

Cory Booker broke the record for longest Senate speech. Throughout the address, Booker repeatedly invoked the civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat of ...