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'Bloody Sunday' 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future“We gather here on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when our country is in chaos,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama. Sewell, a Selma native, noted the number of voting restrictions ...
The population of the small historic town of Selma, Alabama swells once a year as people from around the nation flock to its downtown, its churches before finally gathering for the crescendo event — ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), the son of civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson, walk across Edmund ...
The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences.
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn... 60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama ...
Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.
Sixty years after John Lewis and hundreds of civil rights activists were beaten by the Alabama State Police, thousands ...
The Craighead County NAACP held a march and town hall in Jonesboro to honor Bloody Sunday and discuss voter rights, education, and DEI-related issues.
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point that is man’s unending search for ...
SELMA, AL – Sixty years have passed since a group of peaceful protesters were severely beaten after crossing the Edmund ...
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