This Sunday, September 27, 2020, at 9 PM CNN will air John Lewis: Good Trouble. This CNN Films’ documentary chronicles the late Congressman’s 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Click here for more info.
Today, Congressman John Lewis’ funeral services will be held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. Former President Barack Obama will be speaking. Also, Former President George W. Bush and Former President Bill Clinton are expected to attend. To view the live stream of Congressman John Lewis, click here.
The new legislation will allow civil rights cold cases that happened prior to 1970 to be reopened.
Former Black Panther Sekou Odinga and Black Lives Matter activist Larry Fellows may come from different Black liberation movements, but both understand that to truly celebrate Black History Month, we must dig deeper.
Lewis, who tweeted he was "grateful" for the honor, reportedly cried when he was informed of the idea months ago.
America has lost a warrior of the Civil Rights Movement. Amelia Boynton Robinson died today in Alabama of a massive stroke.
Voting rights advocates are urging lawmakers to restore voting protections reduced in a 2013 Supreme Court decision.
President Barack Obama has always admired the Civil Rights Movement. He has has said that protest songs from the movement inspired his election campaign. Many of the…
50 years ago this week, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a host of others, including Congressman John Lewis then a young civil rights…
Fifty years ago, several hundred peaceful protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to underscore the need for Black voting…
Days before the nation acknowledges the 50 years that have passed since peaceful civil rights demonstrators were brutality beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a new…
Pharrell‘s infectious hit, “Happy,” from the soundtrack of the motion picture Despicable Me 2, has the whole world dancing around like a “room without a roof”…
