One by one, runners and cyclists crossed the finish line at the Alabama State Capitol Saturday, completing a 51-mile journey ...
Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.
Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr., a longtime civil rights strategist who helped organize the campaign in Selma, Alabama that ultimately led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. He was 85.
More than six decades after the marches that helped change the course of American history, some of the people who helped lead ...
Alabama is marking the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma. The violence ...
Rev. Bernard Lafayette, who led the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, an effort marked by violence toward civil ...
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Hundreds cross Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for Jubilee, but weekend violence raises concerns
Hundreds of people traveled to Selma this weekend to commemorate the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, retracing the steps ...
As one watches Selma—which opens in limited release Christmas Day and nationwide Jan. 9—it’s hard not to reflect on the protests going on around the country over the shooting deaths of unarmed black ...
The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the right to vote.
Rev. Bernard Lafayette authored “one of the finest accounts of just what it meant to be a SNCC field worker in June of 1963 from Selma, Ala.” ...
Phillip Howard, manager of the Legacy Places Initiative for The Conservation Fund, stands in front of the historic Edistone Hotel in Selma, Alabama, which was recently acquired by the Fund. (Courtesy ...
The violence in Selma on March 7, 1965, shocked the nation and galvanized support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of ...
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