Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act becoming law. But before that was Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.

It would be almost another three years before John Lewis got his skull cracked protesting injustice. Three years before he and a throng of brave young people stood silently at the foot of the Edmund ...

ATLANTA -- Instead of calling Rep. John Lewis a hero, the better way to honor the civil rights leader's legacy is by guaranteeing equal representation to every American, former President Barack Obama ...

Former first lady Laura Bush, left, first lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., former President George W. Bush, and Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., hold hands during a ...

In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative. John Lewis during a sit-in in Nashville in 1964.Credit...Danny ...

ATLANTA — This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act becoming law. But before that was Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. Channel 2′s Fred Blankenship returned to Selma to relive that ...