Deidre Davis Butler, Who Fought for Disability Rights, Dies at 64
A wheelchair user herself, she helped draft a landmark law and held government posts championing people with disabilities, especially those of color.
Read moreJohn Lewis carried across Edmund Pettus Bridge for last time
The body of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Sunday was escorted across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama for the last time in a tribute to the civil rights icon’s legacy.
Read moreJohn Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80
Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. He was 80.