On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall steps to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus.

This year marks 60 years since the march for Civil Rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Take a look at stories marking the anniversary from years past.

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...

Bloody Sunday, civil rights activists warn that the right to vote is in peril due to political attacks and restrictive laws.

The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation has unveiled two new plaques to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first Selma-to-Montgomery March.

By Kathleen Parker The House censure of Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for his rude – and loud – antics during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress seems appropriate, unless you know ...

In 2015, President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the march by delivering a speech at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. It is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Selma to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma ... today,” said Barack Obama in 2007.

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday in Selma, civil rights activists’ progress in securing equal access to the ballot is being ...