civil rights

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports the statue of a 16-year-old girl who led a walkout in 1951 to protest students’ substandard segregated school facilities will replace Robert E. Lee in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

A state panel has recommended that a statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns should represent Virginia at the U.S. Capitol

Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides,” has died at the age of 83

The case involved a local group home accused of failing to provide a deaf resident with a sign language interpreter. News4’s Cory Smith explains how the Department of Justice is now working to protect people with disabilities.

A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle crash hours after learning he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man last year.

A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation’s highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

Some civil rights advocates are becoming worried the growing violence in some cities is undermining what could be a critical moment in the fight for racial equality. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

The Commitment March stands on the shoulders of iconic civil rights marches throughout American history — namely the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, both of which had a tremendous impact on American life. As civil rights leaders were making history, one little boy in D.C. was being inspired. Eddie Hailes...

Watch the tribute to John Lewis at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC.

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1913 with thousands of other women for a parade spearheaded by one of the country’s leading suffragists, Alice Paul. Wells was representing the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first Black suffrage club in Chicago that she founded two months before. At the rehearsal, she learned that the white organizers...

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.