Published: Jul 19, 2020, 01:18 IST | Updated: Jul 19, 2020, 01:18 IST
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.