Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

The historic city of Selma, Alabama, is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the 60th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery ...

On March 7, 1965, civil rights activist, John Lewis along with over 600 people set out to march across the Edmund Pettus ... event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial bridge and statue to ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

Bishop Bill McGill of Imani Baptist Temple and Minister George Hicks of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Club are ... to march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and make it to the state capitol ...

The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting Rights at 4 p.m. Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on Henry Street.

The Southern Poverty Law Center hosted its annual wreath laying ceremony Friday. Hundreds gathered at the Civil Rights Memorial Center for the event that recognized the unwavering courage of 40 ...

Jubilee is more than a time for reflection—it is a platform to reimagine Selma as a destination for tourism, education, and economic revitalization.

On March 9, 1965, two days after the attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, about 450 ministers and others of goodwill whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had recruited from across the country to help ...

Read More: Selma priest remembers Bloody Sunday. March 9, 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads another march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The march is largely symbolic; as arranged previously ...