Wondering why people are protesting or what they are protesting about now? Who is John Lewis and what does his quote 'Good Trouble' mean?

Across the country, protesters rallied on Thursday under a shared refrain inspired by former congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis: “Good trouble lives on.” Thousands of people took to the streets in what organizers cast as a national day of action — a sweeping protest of the Trump administration’s cuts to safety net programs and efforts to roll back protections for immigrants and marginalized communities.

"Good Trouble Lives On" is known as a national day of action and brings topics of controversial changes happening throughout the country to the events. SHARON On Saturday, over 1,000 nationwide protests are being held to call for change, defend civil and human rights and to honor a late civil rights activist.

“Good Trouble” rallies are coming to Boston and other Massachusetts cities on Thursday, July 17, in protest of the Trump administration, according to the Indivisible Mass Coalition.

Protests and events against President Donald Trump’s controversial policies were held at more than 1,600 locations around the country Thursday. The “Good Trouble Lives On” national day of action was held in honor of the late Congressman John Lewis.

Demonstrators turned out at two locations in Pensacola for the “Good Trouble Lives On” nationwide protest on July 17.

Rep. John Lewis Way march in Nashville drew hundreds as nationwide protests echoed the late civil rights icon's message of "good trouble."

National organizers of the “Good Trouble Lives On” protests said more than 1,500 events took place across the country Thursday, pushing back against what they described as the Trump administration’s “most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations.