Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
Tara Campbell, GirlTREK's director of place-based innovation, said that walking, both at events like the march and weekly as ...
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...
Thousands gathered Sunday at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to hear lawmakers’ words of encouragement. Among these lawmakers were Congresswoman Terri Sewell and Congressman Shomari Figures, who ...
“This is my 25th year as a board member of the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee,” Thompson told The Informer. “We want to make the Jubilee better because too many of our leaders have shed blood and given ...
Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), the son of civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson, walk across Edmund ...
Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.
SELMA, Ala. — Moments before leading them across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock urged the congregation at Tabernacle Baptist Church to create a “reimagining” of ...
"What took place on that bridge literally changed the face of American politics," says Alabama Democrat Terri Sewell, who grew up in Selma and now represents the city in Congress. Her mother, for ...
That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the African American walkers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams had two main goals — to protest voter suppression, and to air their demands for ...