WASHINGTON, DC — The legacy of legendary Georgia Congressman John Lewis was honored on the floor of the US House on Monday, July 14. This Thursday is the fifth anniversary of his death. The ...

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 celebrated ...

ATLANTA, Ga. – U.S. Rep. John Lewis has died at the age of 80. The congressman and civil rights icon had been undergoing treatment in his battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Lewis, a Democrat, ...

DECATUR, Ga. — A memorial honoring Congressman John Lewis will reportedly be erected outside a Georgia courthouse where a Confederate statue once stood. WAGA and The Champion newspaper both report ...

A statue of the late U.S. House representative is a step closer to the Capitol. A proposal to erect a statue of late U.S. Rep. John Lewis in the U.S. Capitol advanced in Georgia on Wednesday, with ...

ATLANTA – US Congressman John Lewis said Monday in Atlanta the battle over gun control reform is far from over. The Georgia Democrat helped lead a sit-in at the US Capitol last week, and he says this ...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — A DeKalb elementary school is honoring the late Congressman John Lewis for a second time. John R. Lewis Elementary, the first public school to be named after the civil rights ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Georgia congressman John Lewis was in the Bay Area Wednesday. He met with high school students, all part of a tour to promote peace and his bestselling books about the civil ...

WASHINGTON -- Civil rights legend and Georgia congressman Rep. John Lewis announced Sunday he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Doctors informed Lewis, 79, will have to undergo ...