He was 80 years old. “It is with inconsolable grief and enduring sadness that we announce the passing of U.S. Rep. John Lewis,” Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones said in a written statement early ...

Rep. John Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019 Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

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 ...

The dedication ceremony was held Wednesday, on what would've been Lewis' 84th birthday-- 84 balloons were released in his honor at the post office along Crown Road.

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 ...

People gather at a make-shift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., on July 19 in Atlanta. Lewis, who died at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights ...

Late Georgia Congressman John Lewis would have turned 85 years old on Friday. Italian PM proposes extending NATO's Article 5 security umbrella to Ukraine Why Kurt Russell Channeled John Wayne For ...

Longtime Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis has died after a battle with stage four pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis was a central ...

Harris took the helm in 1999 of the Nashville HBCU known for producing key social justice and civil rights leaders.

On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John Lewis, gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund ...

This special program features Congressman John Lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights movement. Lewis was known a the conscience of the Congress and dedicated his life to protecting human rights ...