Civil Rights

A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle crash hours after learning he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man last year.

A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation’s highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

NBC Bay Area’s Cheryl Hurd had the chance to sit down and talk to civil rights pioneer Betty Reid Soskin about what she thinks of the current political climate.

Watch the tribute to John Lewis at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC.

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1913 with thousands of other women for a parade spearheaded by one of the country’s leading suffragists, Alice Paul. Wells was representing the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first Black suffrage club in Chicago that she founded two months before. At the rehearsal, she learned that the white organizers...

The memorial for the Civil Rights icon had several touching moments and eulogies. Beverly White reports for NBC LA at 11 p.m. Thursday July 30, 2020.

Former President Barack Obama eulogized Rep. John Lewis Thursday, remembering the work the civil rights icon completed and warning that there is much more work to be done.

Tybre Faw, a 12-year-old boy who Rep. John Lewis befriended two years ago, read the late congressman’s favorite poem at his memorial.

John Lewis spent his whole life fighting for civil rights — and he wanted to make sure the cause lived on after his death.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses Rep, John Lewis and his passion for truth.

Former President George W. Bush paid tribute to civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis in a speech at his funeral.

John Lewis is lying in repose at the Georgia Capitol in the Atlanta district he represented for more than three decades in Congress

Friends and family are remembering a former San Diego State University political science professor as a fighter for justice and liberty — for all people.

The late Rep. John Lewis will be remembered with services that begin this weekend in his home state of Alabama, before lying in state at the U.S. Capitol and his funeral next week in Georgia

WNBA star A’ja Wilson discusses the passing of Rep. John Lewis and how his loss is a reminder to her to use her platform to make change.

John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died

Rep. John Lewis represented Atlanta since the mid-1980s, but he’d been fighting to better the U.S. for his entire life. Beverly White reports for NBC LA at 11 p.m. Friday, July 17, 2020.

John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing late Friday night, calling him “one of the greatest heroes of American history.”…

The U.S. congressman died Friday, a source has told NBC News.

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