Congressman John Lewis

The first life-sized sculpture honoring Representative John Lewis has been unveiled in Alabama. The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) showcased the new display at Legacy Plaza in Montgomery, across from the Legacy Museum. The statue joins the sculptures of Rosa Parks and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Alabama to commemorate the 59th anniversary of a landmark civil rights moment.

The Civil Rights Memorial Center, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alabama State Office, opens Jubilee weekend with its annual wreath laying ceremony. The event is set for Friday, March 1, at 1:00 p.m. in downtown Montgomery.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Junior mapped out the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan. The structure will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation.

A local civil rights leader is being celebrated in Selma today. Caravans are driving throughout the neighborhoods where pastor and educator Dr. F.D. Reese…

Multiple civil rights leaders who died in 2020 will be honored at this year's commemoration of Bloody Sunday.U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery,…

The Selma City Council is declaring March 15th to be "F.D. Reese Day" in the community. Frederick Douglas Reese was 88 when he died in 2018. He had been…

TROY, Ala. (AP) — Troy University is renaming a university building for the late Congressman John Lewis. The Troy University Board of Trustees voted…

ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis will lie in repose at the Georgia capitol in his hometown of Atlanta in one of the last memorial services for the late…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have praised the late congressman John Lewis as a moral force for the nation in a Capitol Rotunda memorial service…