Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...
Voting rights remain under attack, and voting rights protections, including those created in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, have ...
Reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march, highlighting the ongoing struggle for civil rights and ...
Sixty years after John Lewis and hundreds of Civil Rights activists were beaten by the Alabama State Police, thousands returned to Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge to remember one of the bloodiest ...
Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...
In Orwellian juxtaposition, this weekend marked the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when racial justice marchers “rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their blood” even as the current ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
James "Spider" Martin was assigned by the Birmingham News to photograph the weekslong protests in Alabama after state troopers killed civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. The demonstrations ...
The marchers were protesting white officials’ refusal to allow Black Alabamians to register to vote, as well as the killing days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting rights ...
Gov. Andy Beshear joined thousands of activists and community members on Sunday marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.