The funeral service for Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon known as the "conscience of the U.S. Congress," began at 11 a.m. Thursday, wrapping up six days of memorials paying tribute to his life and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Several temporary road closures are in place across D.C. on Monday for longtime congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis' funeral procession. Lewis's procession will make several ...

ATLANTA — The funeral for the late civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis will be held Thursday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once led.

ATLANTA — The late Rep. John Lewis was laid to rest in Atlanta today, in a final farewell to a hero of the Civil Rights Movement and a man who served more than three decades in Congress, coming to be ...

Former congressman John Lewis will be laid to rest on Thursday after a funeral service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. ET. The ...

ATLANTA — Evoking an America that someday may finally form the more perfect union envisioned in the nation's Constitution, former President Barack Obama said if and when that dream is realized it will ...