SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. A processional with Lewis’ casket ...

A large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence. This year's ...

In 1965, Rep. John Lewis was on the front lines leading protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. He reflects on his sobering memory of Bloody Sunday with Melissa Harris-Perry. Then, ...

“We got to the highest point on this bridge,” Lewis said in an interview with NPR, standing on the bridge ten years ago. “Down below we saw a sea of blue – Alabama state troopers.” Then-Alabama Gov.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, ...