On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John Lewis, gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

The late Georgia Congressman John Lewis was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery, motivated by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Black man shot by a ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

More than a week after Rep. Green was censured for interrupting Trump's address, the lingering question is: Why didn’t ...

The events will also highlight the preservation efforts of Selma's historic Brown Chapel ... march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge led by Congressman John Lewis and Rev. Hosea Williams.

Readers lament the self-censorship of public figures who fear retribution from the administration. Also: Remembering Selma; ...

SELMA, Ala. (WALA ... Long after Bloody Sunday -- the march led by late Congressman John Lewis is still bringing people together. A tradition started by Lewis continued Friday afternoon with ...

In 1965, the Selma marches marked a significant turning ... when the funeral procession of Congressman John Lewis was led across the Edmund Pettus Bridge — the same bridge where he suffered ...

Established in 1984 and signed into law by Ronald Reagan, its mission as a “nonpartisan, independent organization” is to ...