As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...

On what happened to be a day of national protest, the message on our ... the most famous being the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Law enforcement’s “Bloody Sunday” attack ...

were viciously beaten as they attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on their way to Montgomery, the state’s capital. The marchers were so horribly beaten ...

Initially assigned to Selma ... photos, useful to movement organizers,” she was quoted saying in the 2010 book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC. One of the ...

The mayor of Selma is facing a charge of electioneering at a polling site during his bid for reelection last year.

It’s shaping up to be the closest thing Alabama’s seen to a Republican ... County Democratic Party is calling a “peaceful” protest. In return, the Baldwin County Republican Party has ...

Dr. Amy K. Milligan will present the 2025 Stone Lecture in Judaism at Augustana, “Navigating History: Civil Rights and the Jews of Selma, Alabama,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Olin ...

This weekend, national protests broke out once again to demand ... grassroots tapestry of resistance. Readers sent photos and videos from Clarksburg, West Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; Denver ...

This story started 80 years ago in Selma, Alabama. “When you come in here, we are going to treat you like family,” said Lannie’s Bar-B-Q Spot owner Floyd Hatcher. Grandma Lannie opened the ...