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January 10, 2017
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are expected to speak out against the nomination of Jeff Session as Donald Trump's…
October 4, 2016
On Monday, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights icon, urged a group of young leaders invited to the…
September 21, 2016
U.S. Rep. John Lewis is calling for federal observers to be placed at polling stations on election day in states…
April 7, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s president has dedicated a plaque that honors slaves who worked on campus centuries ago. The
February 12, 2016
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Civil rights leader John Lewis on Thursday dismissed Sanders' claims of his 1960s work on…
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says all Americans owe a debt to the sharecroppers and maids and ordinary Americans…
December 25, 2014
“It is good to be present when the ordinary is trans­formed… It is good to see the commonplace illumined and
March 20, 2014
Politics Nation -- Rep. John Lewis is a well-known civil rights legend, but it turns out he’s a good dancer…
March 3, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Perhaps more than any issue during his six years in office, some of Obama's strongest black and…
February 18, 2014
MSNBC - A revolt against President Barack Obama’s nominees to the federal bench in Georgia has spread from the civil…
January 27, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The Congressional Black Caucus have long been some of President Barack Obama's staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill…
January 22, 2014
ANALYSIS - Can this actually be passed in a Congress divided by partisanship on nearly every issue? Here's a closer…
October 8, 2013
NBC NEWS - Eight Democratic lawmakers were arrested Tuesday while advocating for comprehensive immigration reform in front of the U.S.…
August 28, 2013
MSNBC - Bruce Davidson is a Magnum photographer and a revered master of social documentary photography...
August 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National
August 21, 2013
ANALYSIS - A number of prominent Democrats of all races are urging Clinton to run..
August 13, 2013
U.S. Rep. John Lewis is paying homage to a 1950s comic book in telling his life story in a graphic…
July 31, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans and Democrats are meeting in the grand Statuary Hall of the Capitol to commemorate the…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Democratic Rep. John Lewis drew a large crowd in one of his more unusual appearances...
July 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner and Democratic Rep. John Lewis are men of a certain age and experience…