Selma is preparing to welcome thousands of people for the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which pays tribute to Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches of 1965.
A historic Selma church that hosted the first mass meeting of the 1960s voting rights movement is receiving a $750,000 grant to help preserve the site.
A bill to create an “Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area” has won Congressional approval and now goes to President Biden for his signature.
The life of civil rights giant and Congressman John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Alabama) is calling on Congress to designate December 1 as a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks.
The Alabama Department of Corrections has released a statement following concerns over the health of an inmate.
A library where Rosa Parks, John Lewis and other civil rights leaders forged strategies that would change the world is mired in controversy over who gets to tell its story.
A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.
Pioneering civil rights attorney Fred Gray has released a statement upon being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.
Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray and 16 others have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.
