Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday ... reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation, named ...

The legislation is named for John Lewis, the late Georgia congressman who was at the lead of the Bloody Sunday march. “It is clear that the values that guided John Lewis and those foot soldiers across ...

Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody ... Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late ...

More than a week after Rep. Green was censured for interrupting Trump's address, the lingering question is: Why didn’t ...

The anniversary arrives as a stark warning that the right to vote, paid for in blood that day, is in peril. Beaten and left for dead. Skulls cracked by batons. Tear gassed. Seventeen people ...

Rep. Terri Sewell advocates for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore full voting rights protections. The Faith and Politics Institute commemorates Bloody Sunday by bringing ...

What those patriotic Americans showed us is that ours is a government of the people where everyday Americans can stand up and ...

ATLANTA — The annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, took place Sunday—honoring ... in the footsteps of the late Congressman John Lewis and other civil rights icons.

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody ... John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation, named after former U.S. Rep.

The anniversary arrives as a stark warning that the right to vote, paid for in blood that day, is in peril. By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier, article courtesy of the Atlanta […] ...