Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were ...
Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...
On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while ...
SELMA, Ala. ( WSFA) - Thousands gathered Sunday at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to hear lawmakers’ words of encouragement. Among these lawmakers were Congresswoman Terri Sewell and Congressman ...
Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...
These 10 remarkable individuals are upholding John Lewis' tradition of making “good trouble” in the name of securing voting ...
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...
The bloodshed in Selma prompted President Lyndon B Johnson to push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. The landmark Act was ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965.