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 ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Civil rights are not reversible. Once the ratchet of rights has been opened, they cannot tighten.

Bloody Sunday, thousands gather in Selma to honor a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Credits: @erniesuggs / AJC | Getty Images | AP ...

This weekend, Selma commemorated the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday with a powerful call to action, urging Americans to do more than just remem ...

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 ...

Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary march in Selma, Alabama and another ceremonial march in Little Rock, Arkansas hosted by NAACP ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s ...

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

Sunday evening, dozens gathered to cross the Broadway bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a historic civil rights event.