DECATUR, Georgia — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the ...

A Georgia square that was home to a Confederate monument for more than a century will now host a statue of the late civil rights icon John Lewis. Authorities began installing the sculpture of the ...

In 2019, Georgia joined their ranks, with GOP Gov. Brian Kemp signing a law that states, "No publicly owned monument honoring Confederate soldiers shall be relocated, removed or altered in any ...

The statue replaces a former Confederate monument that once stood there ... Since 1987, Lewis served as the U.S. representative for Georgia’s 5th district, which covers Decatur, for over ...