Alabama city to re-enact march that sparked "Bloody Sunday"
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Thousands of people are expected to converge in the city of Selma, Alabama for the annual re-enactment of a key event in the civil rights movement.Sunday marks the 52nd anniversary...
View ArticleAlabama's capital city starts new year with Emancipation Day
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's capital city is marking the new year by celebrating Emancipation Day.On Jan. 1, 1866, Montgomery began recognizing the Emancipation Proclamation, signed three years...
View ArticleHillary Clinton uses Selma anniversary address to justify 2016 election loss
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Hillary Clinton has told a crowd a historic black church in Selma, Alabama, that the absence of crucial parts is the Voting Rights Act contributed to her 2016 defeat to Donald...
View ArticleSelma receives $1 million emergency grant to target gangs
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The federal government is giving the city of Selma a $1 million emergency grant to combat violent crimes and gangs.The Montgomery Advertiser reports the grant is expected to last 18...
View ArticleAlabama professors dig into civil rights slaying for podcast
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. put out the call to clergy members to descend on Selma after Bloody Sunday, Jim Reeb knew he had to go, despite his wife's plea to stay.He...
View ArticleBiden warmly welcomed in Selma as Dems court black voters
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Joe Biden received a warm reception Sunday in this crucible of the civil rights movement as he and other Democratic presidential hopefuls appealed for black support in a town where...
View ArticleBloomberg's biggest test: Winning votes on Super Tuesday
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Moments before Mike Bloomberg stood in the pulpit of Brown Chapel AME Church, the pastor noted that the former New York mayor initially declined an invitation to speak at the church...
View ArticleMove to rename 'Bloody Sunday' bridge has critics in Selma
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25...
View ArticleRep. John Lewis remembered for legacy of 'good trouble'
ATLANTA (AP) - Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday at age 80. He is being remembered by...
View ArticleBody of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon.The bridge became a...
View ArticleStolen Confederate monument recovered in New Orleans
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Authorities have recovered a Confederate monument that had been stolen in Alabama and was the subject of a ransom note threatening to convert it into a toilet, New Orleans...
View ArticleStrange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest.How to steal a chair that weighed maybe...
View ArticleKamala Harris marks 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary in Selma
SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for the right to vote, making her trip as congressional efforts to restore the...
View ArticleTornado hits Selma, Alabama; 8 deaths reported across South
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Crews worked through the night searching for people trapped after a deadly storm system spawned tornadoes across parts of the U.S. South, killing at least eight people and causing...
View ArticleBiden vows new election laws in 'Bloody Sunday' speech, accuses GOP of...
SELMA, Ala. — President Biden on Sunday recommitted his pledge to implement long-stalled Democratic plans to overhaul election laws when he commemorated the 58th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday civil...
View ArticleJoe Biden's Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights
SELMA, Ala. — President Joe Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday," joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to...
View ArticleJackson House where MLK planned Alabama marches to be dismantled, rebuilt,...
DEARBORN, Mich. — A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old Jawana Jackson called home, and much of it involved her “Uncle Martin.”There were late-night...
View ArticleMerrick Garland tells Alabama's Bloody Sunday service that voting rights are...
SELMA, Ala. — Attorney General Merrick Garland told parishioners at a Selma church service commemorating the 59th anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on Civil Rights demonstrators that...
View ArticleKamala Harris leads Bloody Sunday march at Edmund Pettus Bridge
SELMA, Ala.— Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms, including...
View ArticleMerrick Garland beefs up team to fight voter ID and drop-box limits, says...
Attorney General Merrick Garland said on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries that states requiring voter ID at the polls and restricting drop boxes are suppressing Black voters, and the Justice...
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