John Lewis wanted to be a preacher. As a young boy tending to his family’s chickens in rural Pike County, Ala., the future Georgia congressman would assemble the landfowl onto their roosts and ...

Rep. John Lewis said that before he died he wanted to see proof "the truth is still marching on." The longtime Georgia lawmaker and famed civil rights activist wrote a final essay for The New York ...

John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy ... From 1986 until his death in 2020, Lewis was a congressman for Georgia. In 2015, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

"John Lewis was an extraordinary man," Winfrey said of the longtime Georgia congressman in a statement to Variety. "A man of great vision who lived a life with the purpose of making sure America ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., explained why he backed a resolution upholding the right to boycott “at home and abroad” — even though he also voted to condemn ...