Sixty years after John Lewis and hundreds of Civil Rights activists were beaten by the Alabama State Police, thousands returned to Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge to remember one of the bloodiest ...
Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and ...
Today’s fight to vote does not yet call on us to show the physical bravery displayed by the heroes on the Edmund Pettus ...
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
Brenda Haywood, a former member of Nashville's Metro Council, was 14 years old in 1965 when civil rights activists were ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...
This month, our nation remembers the heroes of Selma, Alabama.  Sixty years ago, they marched for voting rights, survived brutal beatings, and inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Little Rock branch of the NAACP held a march today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement when ...
This weekend, Selma commemorated the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday with a powerful call to action, urging Americans to do more than just remem ...
This Jubilee was a revival of spirit and purpose, not a retrospective, with the goal of encouraging people in the audience to fight for justice.
Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, a key turning point in American history transpired in the heart of Alabama, when hundreds of peaceful demonstrators marching for Black voting rights were violently ...
Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 8 years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma ...