Hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday (March 9) to retrace the steps civil rights protesters took 60 years ago as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were brutally ...
As the marchers left Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” and attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met with brutal force by state and ...
Salute Selma 2025: Click here for event calendar As we honor six decades since “Bloody Sunday,” Americans are bleeding. They’re bleeding from a new erosion of voting rights. From the closing ...
As I viewed photos of those who gathered in Selma to honor Bloody Sunday, I saw one of a man holding a sign with ... biased advantage in favor of African Americans and other people of color. What I ...
members of congress and civil rights veterans will gather in Selma to commemorate the 60 th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday," which helped lead to landmark federal voting rights legislation.
George Wallace, break up a demonstration march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965, on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." (AP Photo, File) FILE - Amelia Boynton is aided by people after she was ...
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for enfranchisement for Black Americans. Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, ...
A little more than a week after Bloody Sunday in Selma, President Lyndon B ... these anti-democracy laws that deny communities of color an equal voice in government. We know that education ...
Martin Luther King Jr. was noticeably missing from the Bloody Sunday march ... What is often lost in Selma was what Lewis and King both knew. People of color would never find equality under ...
The horror of the event inspired people from all over the country to make their way to Selma ... as Bloody Sunday, they will have devastating, long-lasting impacts on communities of color.
As I viewed photos of those who gathered in Selma to honor Bloody Sunday, I saw one of a man holding ... of African Americans and other people of color. What I see happening now is a reversion ...