Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), the son of civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson, walk across Edmund ...

The atrocity of “Bloody Sunday” helped move public sentiment, and eventually helped bring about the passage of the landmark ...

People take part in a civil rights march across the Brooklyn Bridge in honor of the 60th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday', New York, NY, March 9, 2025. On March 7, 1965, civil rights activists ...

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 ...

Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Sixty years ago, a peaceful march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery turned bloody and became a seminal ... reports in this week’s Sunday Spotlight.March 9, 2025 ...

On March 9, 1965, two days after the attack on the ... home to Selma after being outraged by televised accounts of “Bloody Sunday.” A carload of Klansmen shot Luizzo to death March 25, 1965 ...

Friday is the actual 60th anniversary of what became known as Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, more than 600 people intended to march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and make it to the state ...

The event became known as Bloody Sunday, and national outrage over the ... Organizers of the ninth Roanoke Valley Audible Egg Hunt on April 12 are seeking volunteers, and donations of Easter ...

Seven days out is your guide to entertainment events, concerts, festivals and activities in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.