Selma

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.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Junior mapped out the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan. The structure will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation.

President Biden spoke to Selma and the nation during Alabama’s annual bridge crossing jubilee. The White House described the address as a way to re-focus on voting rights.

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.