In March, the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. A few weeks later, I had the moving experience of walking across ...

Selma tour guide Terry Chestnut showcased Selma’s history through his own tour guide service called “Selma Historical Tours ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) will partner with 21 Dreams Arts & Culture to showcase ...

On New Year’s Day, 1969, a group of student civil rights activists began walking from Belfast to Derry. Their protest was inspired by the famous 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, a high point of ...

It leaves you wondering how such darkness can be expiated, how humans can wreak such horror on other human beings.

This year marks the milestone anniversaries of several civil rights victories: the 70th anniversary of the bus boycott, the 60th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the landmark Voting ...

Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown ...

On Saturday, May 3, the Selma Flea and Farmers Market had their official grand opening after weeks of being under ...

The Selma to Montgomery Marches, President Lyndon Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech, and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. They all took place in 1965. Now, a major piece of that history ...

In the neighborhoods around the Alabama Capitol, where nearly 50,000 people gathered in March of 1965 to meet the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers and push for voting rights, nearly a quarter of ...

The two Civil Rights leaders had radically opposing but important approaches to the fight for equality, rights and justice ...