Former US president Barack Obama on Thursday launched a scathing attack on his successor, Donald Trump, criticising police brutality against blacks and use of federal agents against protesters.

Barack Obama launches sharp attack against Donald Trump

John Lewis, the civil rights warrior who marched with Martin Luther King Jr and was nearly killed in police beatings before serving for decades as a US congressman, died late Friday aged 80. The African-American icon spent his life getting into what he liked to call "good trouble" -- the confrontations necessary to improve American democracy by ending discrimination and racial injustice.

Tributes pour in for civil rights hero John Lewis

How Americans mourned the death of John Lewis

John Lewis, the civil rights warrior who marched with Martin Luther King Jr and was nearly killed in police beatings before serving for decades as a US congressman, died late Friday aged 80.

US congresssman John Lewis, civil rights icon, dead at 80

Longtime civil rights activist and House Representative from Georgia - John Lewis, 79, on Sunday said that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The member of the Democratic Party had led several sit-ins and 'bus-rides' in a bid to integrate the African-American community with the rest of American society in the 1960s and 1970s.

Civil rights activist John Lewis diagnosed with cancer

Trump's top aides have joined in on criticism?of US Representative John Lewis for questioning the legitimacy of Trump's election victory

Now, Trump's team slams John Lewis

'I don?t see this president-elect as a legitimate president,' Lewis had said on Friday

Trump slams civil rights icon John Lewis

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