Selma

For BRELAND, the last few years have been a whirlwind. He released his debut album, 2022’s “Cross Country,” a fluid approach to country music that now feels prescient because it's the direction the genre continues to move in. He just released a new EP under the provocative title, “Project 2024," inspired by a trip he took to Selma.

Vice President, and presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The long-awaited White House visit with President Biden, and then with Harris, comes at an important moment for all three politicians. How Harris feels about the situation in Israel and Gaza may have been framed by a speech she delivered in Selma.

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 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.

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

Book donations for schools in the thirteen counties along the Black Belt region in Alabama are in the final week of collections. The 18th annual Books for the Black Belt campaign wraps up on Friday, March 1

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.

Selma residents will have the opportunity to have their hearing screened tomorrow. The project is called “Hear Here Alabama.” It’s sponsored by the University of Alabama to increase access to hearing healthcare in rural areas.

Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee, will journey across the United States this fall, visiting key places in America's history to raise awareness about immigration and migration. The puppet of the 10-year-old girl will visit the U.S. Capitol, Boston Common, Joshua Tree National Park and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma among other sites during a trek which starts in Boston on Sept. 7 and ends Nov. 5 along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Harry Belafonte has died at age 96. He was an award-winning actor and singer. Belafonte also worked to support the Alabama Civil Rights movement.