John Lewis, a longtime Congressman from Georgia and fearless champion of civil rights and voting equality who died almost 5 years ago on July 17, 2020, we must confront the persisting battle to ...

On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, the late Congressman John Lewis and hundreds of Foot Soldiers were attacked by police while advocating for the equal voting rights of all Americans.

The House of Representatives chamber has been the site of some of history’s greatest strides for the freedom to vote. It’s ...

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 ...

Despite the setbacks, Rep. James Clyburn (D, S.C.-06) and all of his Democrat colleagues introduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and modernize the ...

WASHINGTON — With the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Mongtomery marches just around the corner, the American Civil Liberties Union urges Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act ...

Colorado lawmakers, hoping to enshrine federal voter protections in state law, advanced a bill this week to bar voter ...

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 ...

With attention focused on the anniversary, Democrats also hope to press Congress to act on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The federal bill would among other things restore a key ...

Arekia Bennett, an Emerson Collective Fellow and executive director of Mississippi Votes, is leading the 1890 Project campaign to raise awareness about discriminatory voting laws in Mississippi ...