John Lewis, a longtime Congressman from ... the fight for voting rights has been a cornerstone of the civil rights movement. Black activists and leaders have made tremendous sacrifices to secure ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge marching from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Alabama state ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was beaten in Alabama while working to integrate the interstate bus system as a ...

Booker invoked the late Congressman John Lewis and urged Americans to make “good trouble” as Lewis had in opposing Jim Crow ...

WASHINGTON — New Jersey's Democratic Sen. Cory Booke r set a new record Tuesday for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s history. His speech didn't come without some Georgia ...

Cory Booker broke the record for longest Senate speech. Throughout the address, Booker repeatedly invoked the civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis of Georgia.

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by ...

"When John Lewis marched in Selma, they could at least pressure the administration to act. Now, we have leaders trying to ...

Civil rights leaders ... state of voting rights and racial equality as a “perilous time in our democracy.” “Sadly, we know that the values that guided John Lewis and those foot soldiers ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of John Lewis.

Throughout his speech Booker read letters from Americans about the impact that Trump’s agenda is having on their lives, ...