Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee

A Montgomery-based nonprofit organization that advocates for civil rights and racial equality is inviting the community to honor those who lost their lives in the fight for justice. The Civil Rights Memorial Center will kick off the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Weekend with its annual wreath laying ceremony on March 7, followed by a rally for voting rights protections.

The 56th Annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee is planning for completely online programming this year. The event commemorates “Bloody Sunday,” the day in…

Alabama lawmakers are quickly moving to block a minimum wage hike that has already been approved in Birmingham.The Alabama Senate could vote today to give…

Organizers of events marking the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march say it will celebrate what happened in 1965 and energize…

A group re-enacting the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march is scheduled to complete the journey at the state Capitol. The group began its walk…

Vice President Joe Biden said nothing shaped his consciousness more than seeing TV footage of voting rights marchers being beaten by state troopers on…

A congressional delegation headed to the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma will spend Saturday in Montgomery.The delegation led by Rep. John Lewis of…

Members of Congress are visiting the University of Alabama to see the place where former Gov. George C. Wallace made his "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door"…

Organizers of Selma's annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee say Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will participate in the events.Democratic…