This is the second year Emory students have participated in the tour organized by the A. D. King Foundation, a non-profit ...

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a GOP-backed bill to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at ...

Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...

The city has designated Veterans Bridge as an alternate route, adding barriers and bollards to protect a wide lane for walking and biking on one side. The Walnut Street Bridge is about two-fifths ...

There was a big crowd, a big brawl, and a big broken ego during a slugfest on the sand that started with bets made on the street in Fort Lauderdale Beach. Joshua Pettus, who lives in the area ...

While a national audience watching speakers standing in front of a pulpit set up at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, what I saw was thousands of marchers coming over the Edmund Pettus Bridge and ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from the courage and humility of leaders like the late John Lewis ...

US Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) speaks during the 2025 Faith and Politics Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage at foot of Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. (Amarr Croskey, For The Birmingham Times) SELMA – ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

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Members of Congress joined with Bloody Sunday marchers to lead a march of several thousand people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... a white person on the street to avoid making eye contact.

At the apex of the span over the Alabama River, they saw what awaited them: a line of state troopers, deputies and men on horseback. After they approached, law enforcement gave a warning to disperse ...