John Lewis who fought for justice and equality for people of color until the day he took his last breath. in 1965 a young civil rights leader, John Lewis, on Bloody Sunday, in a demonstration for civil rights led the Selma to Montgomery march across The Edmund Pettus Bridge peaceful and unarmed only to be met by […]

  50 years ago this week, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a host of others, including Congressman John Lewis then a young civil rights…

  *U.S. Rep. John Lewis was arrested Tuesday in front of the Capitol during a protest advocating reform of the nation’s immigration laws. The Atlanta Democrat was one of several members of Congress arrested along with other protesters at the culmination of a march up the National Mall, as they locked arms and refused to […]

From the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial last Saturday, Rev. Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network “Realize The Dream” march aimed to channel the same energy of…

The civil rights era Freedom Riders, who risked their lives and limbs by riding various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local…