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President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...
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, ...
Last weekend I joined a group of colleagues, civil rights leaders, and community members in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham for the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It is an important time to ...
The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting Rights at 4 p.m. Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on Henry Street.
WATCH: Harris marks 59th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Vice President Kamala Harris is among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day ...
More than 500 people attended the April 5 protest at the Andrews Federal Building in Opelika, according to an unofficial ...
Places like the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... which our country remembers as “Bloody Sunday.” But even the most horrific violations of our country’s founding principles didn’t stop ...
It also followed the horrific beating in Selma commonly known as "Bloody Sunday." SELMA ... to vote and were beaten near Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge by the forces of segregationist Governor ...
Terri Sewell (D-AL) speaks during the 2025 Faith and Politics Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage at foot of Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... Alabama state troopers in what became known as “Bloody ...