More than 60 years after Bloody Sunday, hundreds gathered Saturday morning in Selma for a day of prayer, speeches and demonstrations focused on voting rights and political representation.

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 ...

Protesters gathered in Selma, Alabama, among other locations, to push back as Republican-led southern states redraw congressional boundaries.

Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the ...

US supreme court ruling could eliminate two majority-Black districts and entrench Republican control from Congress to county school boards ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's been 60 years since Bloody Sunday, when a peaceful civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama turned violent as police attacked demonstrators. Advocates in New York City ...

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 ...

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 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 ...