Honoring NMAAHC Founding Director Lonnie G. Bunch, III, and Television Pioneer Billye Suber Aaron– Event will be Held for the First Time in Lewis’ Hometown The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation ...

With Lewis’ passing five years ago, we lost a moral compass. But in the halls of the Senate recently, Sen. Cory Booker admired Lewis and embodied his spirit of principled activism. He has answered ...

Obama, 58, eulogized Lewis from the same pulpit, wearing a blue ribbon and a lapel pin with the late congressman's portrait. “The life of John Lewis was in so many ways exceptional," the former ...

DETROIT – Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon, has died at the age of 80 on Friday after a six-month battle with stage four pancreatic cancer. Many in Detroit are remembering Congressman ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2008. When young Tybre Faw read Rep. John Lewis's favorite poem, Invictus, at the civil rights icon's July 2020 funeral, he captivated everyone watching ...

A tribute to John Lewis recently went up in downtown Rochester, New York. The 3,000-square-foot mural of the late civil rights leader and congressman is called “I Am Speaking.” James Brown and ...

On Wednesday’s episode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Politically Georgia” podcast, the hosts talked about how U.S. Sen. Cory Booker’s, D-N.J., record-breaking filibuster ...

The former site of a Confederate memorial in Georgia now holds a statue of the late American civil rights leader and former congressman John Lewis. Crews lowered the statue of Lewis in downtown ...

A bronze statue of the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis has been erected outside the DeKalb County Courthouse in Georgia, replacing a Confederate monument that stood there for 112 years.

A crowd was on hand at a city park in Georgia Saturday to witness the unveiling of a large bronze statue of the late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis that stands in the same spot as ...

Historic Partnership with the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation will support 47 three-year scholarships over 12 years ATLANTA, April 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release ...