The House on Tuesday passed voting rights legislation named for the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a party-line vote that underscores the bill’s nearly impassable upward climb in the Senate.

WASHINGTON ‒ It frustrates John Suttles that Congress has yet to pass a bill named after fellow civil rights veteran John Lewis. “They mean well,‘’ Suttles, 76, said of members of ...

John Lewis (D-Ga.) — to restore those parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act nullified by the Supreme Court in 2013. House Democrats had passed the bill this Congress, but it was blocked in the ...

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A tribute to John Lewis recently went up in downtown Rochester, New York. The 3,000-square-foot mural of the late civil rights leader and congressman is called “I Am Speaking.” James Brown and ...

The bill would make it harder for the tens of ... The NAACP calls on Congress to ditch the SAVE Act and pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act instead. The Lewis act aims to restore ...

the American Civil Liberties Union urges Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), reintroduced today to restore and strengthen critical federal protections against racial ...