Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago on March 7, 1965, a group of peaceful, unarmed activists — men, women and children — walked slowly and with ...

On March 7, 1965, around 600 civil rights protesters led by Hosea Williams and John Lewis marched in Selma, Alabama, for Black voting rights. As they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they faced ...

Minnesota civil rights leaders gathered with thousands on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. to commemorate 61 years since the U.S. civil rights movement turning point, known at Bloody Sunday.

On MLK Day, whispers of memories of my time in Selma, Alabama, return. They’re dream-like recollections, faint but never forgotten, blurry with sharp edges. At dawn six years ago, I walked across the ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns ...

As gerrymandering targets Black voting representation in multiple states, thousands retraced the Selma Bloody Sunday march ...

TULSA, Okla. — A group of local activists just returned from Selma, Alabama. They were chosen to participate in a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where 60 years ago, people ...

The Alabama State Conference of the NAACP has announced its official schedule for the 2026 NAACP-sponsored Selma Jubilee Bridge Crossing Weekend, set for March 6–8 in Montgomery and Selma. Held under ...

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 are under attack in ...

This past weekend, thousands gathered in Alabama for the annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Celebration, retracing the famous steps across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where civil rights marchers once ...

SELMA, Ala. (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people paraded across a Selma, Alabama bridge on Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march, not waiting for dignitaries who had planned to lead ...