This is an opinion column. It’s the blood for me. You don’t see it in the black-and-white photos. Or the grainy video footage of that horrific day 60 years ago. Sixty years ago, only minutes ...
Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten.
President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...
FILE - An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala.
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Selma, Alabama, has a population less than 20,000 people. As organizers welcome thousands of visitors to commemorate the 60 th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, planners say 2025 ...
Coretta Scott King wrote in 1970 that “almost anyone who can read or look at a television screen knows what happened in Selma that sunny, bloody afternoon.” I don’t know if that was ever true.
As we honor six decades since “Bloody Sunday,” Americans are bleeding. They’re bleeding from a new erosion of voting rights.
As people gather in Selma to remember "Bloody Sunday,'' some call for action. "We're still in the midst of this struggle,’’ ...