civil rights leaders — in an effort to draw attention to Alabama’s success in preventing African Americans from registering to vote — attempted to march the 54 miles from Selma to the state ...

The Montevallo Bulldogs made a massive offensive statement in their first area series as a member of Class 5A as they went ...

On March 7, 1965, the Black Rights movement in America witnessed a turning point when hundreds of activists were confronted ...

As the Selma campaign gained traction, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists across the nation took notice. For context, in 1963 they succeeded in Birmingham, in part, because they had ...

In 1966, Simone wrote and performed “Four Women,” a musical portrait of different stereotyped Black women who were exploited ...

At 83 years old, Bernie Sanders has emerged as an unlikely leader of the Democratic resistance to Donald Trump. The ...

Reflecting on efforts by John Lewis, or Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the light of how Jesus calls us to love can be shed ...

60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March Wesley United Methodist Church ... grow and what should be pruned from our lives to draw closer to Jesus this Lenten season.

Advocates are gathering in Selma, Alabama, this weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" amid fears of a ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to ...

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.

This past weekend, he was in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The truth is that few, if any, Democratic leaders have the capacity to draw such crowds on short notice ...