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Former President Barack Obama eulogized Rep. John Lewis Thursday, remembering the work the civil rights icon completed and warning that there is much more work to be done.

Tybre Faw, a 12-year-old boy who Rep. John Lewis befriended two years ago, read the late congressman’s favorite poem at his memorial.

John Lewis spent his whole life fighting for civil rights — and he wanted to make sure the cause lived on after his death.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses Rep, John Lewis and his passion for truth.

Former President George W. Bush paid tribute to civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis in a speech at his funeral.

John Lewis is lying in repose at the Georgia Capitol in the Atlanta district he represented for more than three decades in Congress

Rep. John Lewis has been fighting for equality in America for much of his life. He’s one of the last remaining leaders of America’s Civil Rights movement. Now at 79 years old, the veteran congressman from Georgia is taking up the fight for equality again. News4’s Barbara Harrison reports on his latest plan.

Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis is being remembered in ceremonies in the rural Alabama county where his story began

Black bunting was installed outside late U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ congressional office. Lewis, a civil rights icon who worked with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at age 80 on July 17.

Rep. John Lewis was willing to give his life for racial justice. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke with a D.C. pastor who became friends with the late congressman nearly three decades ago.

John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died

WNBA star A’ja Wilson discusses the passing of Rep. John Lewis and how his loss is a reminder to her to use her platform to make change.

John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing late Friday night, calling him “one of the greatest heroes of American history.”…

The U.S. congressman died Friday, a source has told NBC News.

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A civil rights activist, attorney and writer explain race relations, societal change and the political awakening happening in the United States following the tragic death of George Floyd. When it comes to race, “systemic problems have plagued the nation for not only decades, but for centuries,” says Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People....

The leaders of four civil rights groups called for advertisers to continue boycotting Facebook on Tuesday after a meeting with the company’s top executives that left them feeling unconvinced of the social media giant’s commitment to stopping hate speech.

A Virginia man faces federal charges after officials say he burned a cross on the front lawn of a Black teenager who organized a civil rights protest the previous day.

Bob Moses says America is at “a lurching moment” for racial change, potentially as transforming as the Civil War era and the 1960s civil rights movement that he helped lead

Across the country Friday, people gathered in observance of Juneteenth, a day that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S.