Sixty years ago this week, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights demonstrators on their third attempt to march from ...

Alabama continues to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with a series of events in the state’s capital city intended to cause reflection, celebration and ...

With the federal law eroded by court decisions, about a half-dozen states want to enshrine protections for non-white voters. But it’s a tough sell even in Democratic states.

By Tom Boggs In March of 1965, sixty years ago, a large contingent of National Guard units were federalized, and ordered to ...

The Trump administration appears to have set no restrictions. It hasn’t criticized Israel’s decision to once again seal off ...

Montgomery, Alabama, the final site of a crucial march from Selma, is set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of an event that ...

Douglas Square in 1936, where they practiced ...

At the meeting, Chaplain Thompson was the first to speak, arguing that traveling to Selma, where the voting rights march was ...

When Andrew Young served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, he would often bring one of his four children to formal events in New York City or Washington, D.C. At a White House ...

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon.