Preston McGee is no stranger to the citizens of Selma and the effort to make pivotal change.On Wednesday, March 26, McGee was ...
April’s Lunch at the Library will feature a book about a disciple written by one of the nation’s leading restorers of ...
The city of East Ridge is expanding its community center. It received a Local Park and Recreation Fund grant from the state ...
It's the culmination of the 60th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March — which began with ... The "Stars for Freedom Rally" took place the evening of March 24, 1965, at the City of St. Jude in ...
Selma Drag Strip, Dallas Lake, Old Cahaba Park, Memorial Stadium, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma University, Dannelly Reservoir and Selmont-West Selmont. According to the weather service ...
She and Noel Furie had just come out as lesbians when they opened an unusual gathering place for women in Connecticut. Nearly half a century later, it is still thriving. By Penelope Green Selma ...
Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.
They have come to remember the pain and suffering early Civil Rights Movement foot soldiers endured. The 60 th Anniversary Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, a weeklong event, commemorated March 7, 1965, ...
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 ...
in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) From left; U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Derrick Johnson participate in a church service at the Tabernacle Baptist Church ...
(AP Photo/Mike Stewart)(Mike Stewart / AP) SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ...
"What took place on that bridge literally changed the face of American politics," says Alabama Democrat Terri Sewell, who grew up in Selma and now represents the city in Congress. Her mother, for ...