U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, who came under heavy criticism from several prominent Georgia Democrats in the aftermath of the ...

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 ...

As we honor the life and legacy of the esteemed U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a longtime Congressman from Georgia and fearless champion of civil rights and voting equality who died almost 5 years ago on ...

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

The escalation of the war between Donald Trump and the judiciary is now in full steam—and constitutional democracy rests on ...

Al Green. March 9 was the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when Rep. John Lewis and others were attacked for a peaceful civil rights march in Selma, Ala. Green was just practicing Lewis ...

On Thursday, after the censure vote, he pointed to peaceful protests that had been conducted by former Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). “With peaceful protest, you have to be prepared to suffer the ...

I should have grasped the depth and inspirational mission of Raúl Grijalva sooner. That feeling of regret came crashing down on March 26 as I watched the funeral Mass of the Southern Arizona ...

Many also came together to mourn the loss of civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis, who died in 2020. A year later, Bowser said that one of her proudest memories of the Black Lives Matter ...

Among the marchers was future Congressman John Lewis, whom Figures invoked. “We have to stand up for Montgomery, we have to stand up for our history, and we have to stand up for this bus station ...

goodbye!" Green said Wednesday that he had the "privilege of going to jail" with the late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the civil rights icon who Green said taught him the importance of peaceful ...