TROY, Ala. – A memorial service was held for civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis in his hometown in Alabama on Saturday. Lewis died at 80 years old on Friday, July 17, after a battle with stage ...

DECATUR, Ga. — A memorial honoring Congressman John Lewis will reportedly be erected outside a Georgia courthouse where a Confederate statue once stood. WAGA and The Champion newspaper both report ...

The funeral service for Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon known as the "conscience of the U.S. Congress," began at 11 a.m. Thursday, wrapping up six days of memorials paying tribute to his life and ...

ATLANTA — The funeral for the late civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis will be held Thursday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once led.

Former President George W. Bush remembers the late Rep. John Lewis during a funeral service in Atlanta on Thursday, July 30. He has said that at his 2009 inauguration, he hugged Lewis and told him ...

Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a ...