Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights. Speakers at the event emphasized the ongoing fight for voting rights and the ...
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill ...
Hundreds of marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate “Bloody Sunday.” Posted: March 9, 2025 | Last updated: March 9, 2025 ...
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'Bloody Sunday' 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future“We gather here on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when our country is in chaos,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama. Sewell, a Selma native, noted the number of voting restrictions ...
The Craighead County NAACP held a march and town hall in Jonesboro to honor Bloody Sunday and discuss voter rights, education, and DEI-related issues.
Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn... 60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama ...
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point that is man’s unending search for ...
The 1960 March on Montgomery in Selma, Alabama, was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Bradenton native Richard Smiley, who marched in the 1960 protest, describes the brutality he and his ...
The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...
(WIB) – Although many freedom fighters and faith leaders make the yearly March pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama in commemoration of the hundreds of civil rights activists injured by police on March 7, ...
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