Filmmaker Ava DuVernay joined the call to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama — dedicated to a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader — to honor Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the civil ...

House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) joined the call to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in honor of civil rights champion John Lewis. In a Meet The Press interview with ...

7/26/20 - Selma, AL - The caisson carrying the body of Rep. John Lewis approaches the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, during the second of six days of tributes for the late Rep. John Lewis that ...

SELMA, Ala. -- The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. The bridge became a ...

During virtual remarks at a commemoration service last year, she recalled joining the late Rep. John Lewis -- a civil rights icon who helped lead the 1965 march -- during the annual walk across the ...

Updated at 5:00 p.m. ET The body of John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one last time on Sunday in what organizers described as "The Final Crossing," part of a multiday celebration of the life ...

SELMA, Ala. — People from across the country joined on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Saturday to remember the 50 th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Channel 2's Dave Huddleston said there was a ...

SELMA, Ala. (Reuters) - The body of civil rights icon John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, decades after his "Bloody Sunday" beating there drew a national spotlight to the struggle ...