Booker broke the Senate speech record held by Sen. Strom Thurmond who argued for a full day against the Civil Rights Act of ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by ...

(AP Photo, File) FILE - Selma civil rights foot soldier Charles Mauldin introduces President Joe Biden to speak near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 5, 2023, during an event ...

Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.

The author urges vigilance and engagement in defending democracy, drawing a parallel to the ... generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Defending democracy depends on ...

Alabama swells once a year as people from around the nation flock to its downtown and its churches before finally gathering for the crescendo event -- walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Thousands gathered Sunday at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to hear lawmakers’ words of encouragement. Among these lawmakers were Congresswoman Terri Sewell and ...

Atlanta played a big role in Bloody Sunday. The late Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams led the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. SELMA, Ala. - On Sunday, March 9 ...

Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Eighty-five-year-old Spiver Gordon ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...