Tag: Funerals and memorial services
Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning
BOSTON (AP) - The white Union Army commander sits rigid atop an imposing horse. His Black men, rifles to their shoulders, march resolutely alongside...
Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as...
Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis...
Clippers’ Williams will serve 10-day quarantine, miss games
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - The NBA said Sunday that Lou Williams of the Los Angeles Clippers is being quarantined for 10 days...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...
Segregation, King meeting set Lewis on quest for justice
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Eighteen-year-old John Lewis stepped off a Greyhound bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1958 after receiving a round-trip ticket from the...
John Lewis funeral to be held at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist
ATLANTA (AP) - The funeral for the late civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis will be held Thursday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist...