Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
Hundreds of people rallied at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to mark 60 years since "Bloody Sunday," when authorities beat peaceful protesters who were marching against race ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers. “They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was ...
Gov. Andy Beshear joined thousands of activists and community members on Sunday marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
Each winter, eighth grade students at the Gordon School take a trip to Alabama and Georgia to visit historic sites associated ...
Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.
The case was not appealed to the Supreme Court. Earlier this month, Odoms walked with tens of thousands of others across the ...
It was early Sunday morning on March 7, 1965, when a then 25-year-old John Lewis led about 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. When they got to the highest point over the Alabama River, the ...
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund ...
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma SELMA, Ala. — People make the pilgrimage annually to walk across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge, where on March 7 ...