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 -- 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 ...

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 — 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.

John Lewis’ funeral was today in Atlanta. The late Congressman and civil rights activist died of pancreatic cancer on July 17. He was 80 years old. Former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and ...

Former President George W. Bush remembers the late Rep. John Lewis during a funeral service in Atlanta on Thursday, July 30. He has said that at his 2009 inauguration, he hugged Lewis and told him ...