John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.

Would have I walked away after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and thought I had earned some ... a signal that the nation had turned a corner? John Lewis never gave up, never stopped working to ...

Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams, coordinator of the Pan-African Studies Program, was in attendance of the Lunch and Learn. The ...

John Lewis, a fierce civil rights advocate and congressman from Georgia, died Friday at age 80. WSJ's Joshua Jamerson recounts Mr. Lewis's long and influential life. Photo: Riccardo S. Savi/Getty ...

Kelsey Grammer recently revealed to the New York Post the reason why he had a 30-year falling out with “Cheers” co-star Ted Danson. The two actors appeared on a podcast last October where Danson ...

Lewis, a civil rights activist and long-tenured United States congressman, died on July 17. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon and Congressman, Dead at 80 Lewis was a civil rights icon who helped ...

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was ...