Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights.
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
"People are afraid," Selma's mayor told more than 30 Congress members at the start of a weekend of remembrance.
On March 7, 1965, the Black Rights movement in America witnessed a turning point when hundreds of activists were confronted ...
Jobs lost, tariffs, funding cuts nationally and globally, deportations, looming Medicaid cuts, DEI erasure - America is ...
A person takes a photo of the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that ...
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 ...
“What happened on Bloody Sunday is worthy of remembering so that we will never forget it,’’ she said. Throughout the weekend, there will be a host of commemoration events spearheaded by ...
In the moments before the start of the first Selma to Montgomery March on March 7, 1965, Andrew Young gathered several of the key organizers in a field for prayer. Among them were Hosea Williams ...
John Lewis was among hundreds of peaceful protesters who were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when they were met by brutal police violence. What gave him the courage to stand ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting white ...