Bloody Sunday

An Alabama lawmaker and voting rights advocates are introducing Senate Bill 7, also known as the Alabama Voting Rights Act. The legislation is being billed by supporters as a way to protect democracy and ensure equal access at the ballot box.

Dorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and voter registration drives, and a Selma voting rights marcher, has died, her family confirmed.

Vice President Kamala Harris issued a forceful call for a temporary cease-fire deal in Gaza, while in Selma to commemorate “Bloody Sunday, where Alabama officers attacked voting rights marchers on the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge. Harris says the deal in Gaza would halt fighting for at least six weeks, and also increased pressure on Israel to not impede the aid that workers were trying to get into the region.

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, including the right to vote, are under attack in America even today.

Attorney General Merrick Garland and Vice President Kamala Harris are scheduled to attend the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. That’s the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators on the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Alabama to commemorate the 59th anniversary of a landmark civil rights moment.

Auburn University will host its second Bloody Sunday, Selma and the Long Civil Rights Movement program this summer. Educators will visit several civil rights monuments in Marion, Selma and Montgomery, including the Brown Chapel AME Church and Edmund Pettus Bridge.

President Joe Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of "Bloody Sunday" this weekend in Selma. He'll be joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly sixty years ago.

The life and legacy of an Alabama trailblazer in the Civil Rights movement will be celebrated today. The Southern Poverty Law Center will host a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the late Congressman John Lewis.

The White House says President Biden will be heading to Alabama this Sunday to speak during an annual event linked to civil rights and voting rights.