Civil Rights

(ATLANTA) — John Lewis spent his whole life fighting for civil rights — and he wanted to make sure the cause lived on after his death. In an essay he wrote shortly before he died,...

Lewis will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol this week before his private funeral Thursday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church

(CHICAGO) — A statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown Chicago’s Grant Park was taken down early Friday, a week after protesters trying to topple the monument to the Italian explorer clashed with police. Crews used...

The Fairfax County School Board approved the change during a meeting Thursday

Some say tourism would be hurt if the bridge, named for white supremacist Edmund Pettus, was renamed

Rep. John Lewis, the longtime Georgia congressman and Civil Rights icon who was a protegé of Martin Luther King Jr., has died