Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... Selma to commemorate the 60 th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday," which helped lead to landmark federal voting ...
As people gather in Selma to remember "Bloody Sunday,'' some call for action. "We're still in the midst of this struggle,’’ ...
"Bloody Sunday" catalyzed support for Black civil and human rights and led a few months ... On Sunday, there was a festival atmosphere as crowds stopped to take photographs and pause in front of signs ...
Members of Congress joined with Bloody Sunday marchers to lead a march of several thousand people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They stopped to pray at the site where marchers were beaten in 1965.
John Lewis (D-GA) arrives to speak to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking the 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1, 2020 in Selma, Alabama.
I normally get nervous when covering major stories, but when we arrived in Selma, I felt nothing but excitement. It was colder than anticipated, but once my photographer informed me that the Edmund ...
Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Eighty-five-year-old Spiver Gordon ...
The anniversary arrives as a stark warning that the right to vote, paid for in blood that day, is in peril. Beaten and left for dead. Skulls cracked by batons. Tear gassed. Seventeen people ...