Civil Rights icon Congressman John Lewis receiving Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 by President Barack Obama.
The nation awakes to the overwhelmingly sad news that Congressman John...
REP. JOHN LEWIS. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Civil Rights icon and trailblazing pioneer Rep. John Lewis who'd been battling cancer and announced his diagnosis seven months ago has died at the...
Madison County voters made history this week by electing Violet Edwards as the first African-American woman to the County Commission.
Edwards won the Democratic primary runoff, and there is...
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