NASHVILLE, T.N. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of ...

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

Phillip Howard, manager of the Legacy Places Initiative for The Conservation Fund, stands in front of the historic Edistone Hotel in Selma, Alabama, which was recently acquired by the Fund. (Courtesy ...

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.

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 ...