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Among the performers was Asher HaVon, a soulful R&B and gospel artist from Selma, Alabama is best known for being the first ...
The Supreme Court delayed ruling on a Louisiana congressional redistricting case that some legal experts say could end up ...
From pig ears to "white sauce" to the legendary ribs that fed the civil rights movement, Alabama has a diverse and tangy culinary history. Here are the best places to get a taste.
(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...
In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...
It was summer 1965 and a 24-year-old Somerstein had spent the day covering the third march from Selma for his college newspaper, but he wasn’t satisfied with ending the day on a stock photograph ...
It was in this very home where leaders planned the final, successful Selma to Montgomery march, which began on March 21 and concluded on March 25 with thousands of courageous marchers.
It was in this very home where leaders planned the final, successful Selma to Montgomery march, which began on March 21 and concluded on March 25 with thousands of courageous marchers. By August ...
The three marches in Selma were pivotal because they exposed systemic injustices to the world. In little Selma, Alabama, images of peaceful marchers being attacked shocked the American public and ...
SELMA — Anniversary of Bloody Sunday march: U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and NAACP President Derrick Johnson, from left ...
Karales accompanied the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others along a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the capital city of Montgomery to demand voting rights. There were three such marches.