Under the Trump administration, a powerful symbol of our fight against racial injustice is being erased.

In 1965, activists started a march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the right to vote. However, as they were crossing ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were attacked in Selma on March 7, 1965.

Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who marched in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

As people gather in Selma to remember "Bloody Sunday,'' some call for action. "We're still in the midst of this struggle,’’ said Bryan Stevenson.

I remember the first time I heard Angie Stone. No, it wasn’t the “No More Rain (In This Cloud),” which samples Gladys Knight ...

Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. (top) attends a committee session Dec. 11, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file) Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. was indicted this week for ...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Ronald Glen Pettus, of Saint Charles, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at the age of 82. Beloved husband of Joyce Elizabeth Pettus; cherished son of the ...

These include renaming all named bridges as the “Bishop Davidson Bridge”, renaming the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to the “Bishop Davidson Curriculum Distribution Department”, ...

Two-and-a-half years after being arrested in Graham, Jeremy Pettus was sentenced to 51 months in prison with five years of supervised release following a judgment in the U.S. District Court of the ...

In 2004, Captain Cash, who graduated from Old Orchard Beach High School, lost his life as part of a dangerous mission for Operation Iraqi Freedom. A bill to honor local hero Captain Christopher S.