Standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where hundreds of Foot Soldiers were attacked 60 years ago while ...

Moments before leading them across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, U.S. Sen ... Members of sororities, fraternities and masonic lodges, dressed in the colors, walked together and sang.

They were both astute adversaries. King won in the end. King and Wallace both knew that if violence occurred on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma that people throughout the country would lean in ...

This Sunday leaders from throughout Alabama and the nation will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march and the infamous Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

This situation changed years later when the Willowbrook Bridge, which goes over Brush Creek near Princeton, was christened the George M. Hall Memorial Bridge in his honor. After months of work and ...

APR news director with Selma voting rights march organizer Bennie Lee Tucker If you want to know what prompted the voting rights march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965 asked Bennie Lee ...

(I took a leap of faith—and it led me in search of history’s lost slave ships) Coretta Scott King, John Lewis and a crowd of 5,000, march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, Alabama ...

Six of the 11 candidates for Prince George’s County Executive discussed job security, education, housing and student advocacy at a town hall hosted by the University of Maryland’s SGA Monday ...

Selma, Alabama, occupies a unique place in U.S. history as the site of the pivotal civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965—an event forever remembered as “Bloody ...