With the death of congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, pressure is mounting to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.. Lewis was one of the prominent activists who marched ...

In 2015, the Alabama Senate approved a resolution from then-Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, calling for the bridge to be named the “Journey to Freedom Bridge.” The state House did not take up the ...

Today, with thousands protesting nationwide against racial injustice, a years-old push is gaining steam to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Rep. John Lewis, who led the 1965 marchers on ...

This year's Selma Bridge Crossing is an opportunity for community restoration. ... Former Alabama state Sen. Henry "Hank" Sanders and his wife, Faya, started the event nearly 30 years ago.

Sixty years ago this month, civil rights activists walked across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama before being violently attacked by law enforcement. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

SELMA, Ala. -- Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on Sunday to commemorate a bloody confrontation 50 years ago between police and peaceful protesters that helped bring about the 1965 Voting ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge is intact on Jan. 13, 2023, in Selma, Alabama, after a tornado swept through the area and destroyed houses and businesses.

Speaking in Selma, Alabama, on the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris drew parallels between the Civil Rights Movement, the rights to bodily autonomy and the right to ...

T he Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama memorializes the route taken by marchers during the Voting Rights March from March 21 to March 25, 1965. This complete guide includes ...

“The Bridge Crossing Jubilee is needed every year. But in light of the massive devastation in Selma, it is needed now more than ever,” Faya Rose Toure, a founder of the annual celebration ...

My time in Selma gave me life-long reflections on civil rights and social justice. Above, I am photographed in Selma, Alabama, near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, on Tuesday, March, 6 2018.

When: Saturday, March 8, 1-4 p.m. Where: Alabama State University’s John Garrwick Hardy Student Center, 915 S. Jackson St., ...