//At John Lewis' funeral, former President Obama calls for renewing Voting Rights Act

At John Lewis' funeral, former President Obama calls for renewing Voting Rights Act

Former President Barack Obama used Rep. John Lewis’ funeral on Thursday to issue a stark warning that the voting rights and equal opportunity the late civil rights icon championed are under increasing threat heading into the 2020 election.Obama, speaking from the pulpit of the church that Martin Luther King Jr. once led, called on Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act, which the Supreme Court