The Alabama legislature passed a bill Thursday to name a portion of U.S. Highway 80, from Selma to Montgomery, after the late civil rights icon and congressman, John R. Lewis.

On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, the late Congressman John Lewis and hundreds of Foot Soldiers were attacked by police while advocating for the equal voting rights of all Americans.

For decades the name of a former Alabama governor and Ku Klux Klan member fronted one of the main buildings on the Troy University campus, but not anymore.

NEW YORK (WWTI) — Governor Kathy Hochul signed the landmark John. R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York into law on Monday at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. The purpose of the legislation is ...

Love, faith, truth, peace, knowledge and action are the values of the John & Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation honoring the legacy of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who died last year. Lewi… ...

Today, Alabama native John Lewis' spirit lives on at the university where his name replaces that of Bibb Graves, governor from 1927-1931 and again from 1935-1939. Lewis died in mid-July of cancer ...