In 2015, then-President Barack Obama spoke in Selma for the 50th ... peaceful civil rights protestors crossing Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. The images of the beatings and ...

This year marks 60 years since the march for Civil Rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Take a look at stories ... Mexico tariffs Ben Stiller reveals Barack Obama’s response after he asked ...

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A decade ago, President Barack Obama linked arms with Sharpton ... This weekend, Sewell will lead a commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Former Vice President Kamala Harris ...

there have been many memorial events to mark the milestones like the 50th anniversary when then-President Barack Obama marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, now a national historic landmark.

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political icon. But above all, he’s a Southerner.

Texas, for his rude — and loud — antics during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress seems appropriate, unless you know a little ...

State troopers and “possemen” with batons and tear gas charged about 600 marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Amelia Boynton ... president Barack Obama held the hand of the wheelchair ...

Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma ... for president today,” said Barack Obama in 2007. Jackson’s political ...

The first Black child born in America, William Tucker, was probably born on this date in Jamestown, Va. However, some ...