From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma came to a climax Sunday afternoon with the bridge crossing reenactment across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. People gathered by the thousands at the foot of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Then marched across the bridge to connect themselves with the marchers who were beaten back across…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Bridge Crossing Jubilee organizers announce a scheduling change for the biggest event of the entire celebration. The bridge crossing reenactment over the Edmund Pettus Bridge will start at 12 noon this year — two hours earlier than usual. The pre-march rally at the historic Brown Chapel AME Church will start at 11 am. The change…
During the month of March, twenty Women in Blue will help raise money and awareness about colorectal cancer.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– In 1963, students at RB Hudson High School in Selma — launched a non-violent march and a demonstration in response to the 16th Street Church bombing. The 60th anniversary of those events were commemorated Friday in Selma. The Unity Day celebration honored the student protestors — and it also included a reenactment of the non-violent…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Bloody Sunday was one of the most pivotal events of the modern civil rights movement. Now historians are trying to identify the people — who marched into the pages of history. A photographic exhibit on display at the Selma-Dallas County Public Library — is part of an on-going effort to identify — the unknown foot…
NEW YORK (AP) — The executive board of the Major League Baseball Players Association rejected a proposed 60-game schedule by a 33-5 vote, daring Commissioner Rob Manfred to give a unilateral order for the regular season’s start and provoke what figures to be lengthy and costly litigation over the impact of the coronavirus on the sport. The union’s vote was…
Today dozens of people gathered at the fountain on Dexter Avenue to make their voice heard on women’s rights and gender equality. The march was organized by Montgomery Pride United. MPU fights for women’s and LGBQT rights. They started on Dexter Avenue and marched up to the capitol steps, where they held a rally. The group say this is a…
March 5th marked the 52nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma. Hundreds of people gathered in Selma to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge 52 years after the original protestors marched in the Civil Rights Movement. Some people who marched during that time were there to cross the bridge again, and were so thankful their efforts weren’t forgotten. “We were scared,…
A Blackout protest held on the Capitol steps saw dozens of people coming out to show support for a national movement. After the most recent shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, some Montgomery citizens didn’t just want to stand by. “A lot of people was reaching out. To me about, saying Jamel we need to do something here in Montgomery. We…
