A pivotal moment unfolded in Selma, Alabama, beginning on March 7, 1965. Roughly 600 courageous demonstrators launched a march that caught the attention of the entire nation. Activists sought to ...

The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil rights history. The historic Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches for ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. It ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Reverend Jesse Jackson accompanied President Joe Biden in the annual Selma Bridge Crossing in 2023.

Fifty years ago Saturday, a 52-mile march planned from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, faltered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The voting rights demonstrators encountered state troopers who attacked them ...

As Egyptians celebrate the end of Mubarak’s 30-year reign, Nicolaus Mills, a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, remembers the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. In this essay, he talks about the ...

Sixty years ago, on March 7, Sheyann Webb-Christburg walked with 600 other activists in Selma, Alabama, to protest Black voter suppression. As they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, just six blocks ...

The weather was peaceful 50 years ago today in Selma, Ala. - as peaceful as the crowd that had assembled to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on route to Montgomery. The civil rights movement was stopped ...

This weekend will mark the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.-led march for equal voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., and all weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, MSNBC will present ...