Bloody Sunday

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.

Multiple civil rights leaders who died in 2020 will be honored at this year's commemoration of Bloody Sunday.U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery,…

The Selma City Council is declaring March 15th to be "F.D. Reese Day" in the community. Frederick Douglas Reese was 88 when he died in 2018. He had been…

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis has crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time as remembrances continue for the civil rights…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Calls are growing nationally to honor the late Rep. John Lewis by putting his name on the Alabama bridge where he and other voting…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Religious faith was a lifelong constant for Rep. John Lewis. He spent his boyhood in Alabama preaching to a make-believe…

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — On the day that became known as Bloody Sunday, John Lewis and a line of nonviolent marchers were beaten and tear-gassed by Alabama…