Darryl C. Murphy, host of The Common, sat down for a conversation with historian David Greenberg about “John Lewis: A Life,” the first definitive biography of the Civil Rights icon who would become ...

John Lewis, second from left, marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery in March 1965 with leaders including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (William Lovelace/Getty Images) John Lewis, the civil rights ...

John Lewis grew up in an Alabama family so poor that he and his young cousins once had to shuttle from room to room, acting as “ballast” to keep their aunt’s house from blowing away in a windstorm.

Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, along with Martin Luther King Jr., become the personification of nonviolence ...

ATLANTA — A new biography of John Lewis promises a “comprehensive, authoritative” look back at the life of the Civil Rights leader and congressman. Lewis represented Georgia’s 5th District in the ...

The congressman and civil rights activist died on Friday at age 80 Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History The congressman, pictured here in 2009, was instrumental in the creation of ...

In the early weeks of 2008, as Barack Obama was fighting Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination, many Party members felt obliged to pick a side, and to lend their voices to the ...

When civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia died last month, so did a big piece of America. Lewis was the rarest of things — a politician who was roundly admired by Americans of ...

John Lewis, the civil rights activist who would go on to become a long-serving congressman and whose death this summer provoked a national outpouring of grief, woke up in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965 ...