The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups held a news conference to address their concerns about the voting process in Alabama.
Alabama State University has held an open house for the Montgomery Civil Rights Interpretive Center on its campus.
Bernard LaFayette, a key figure in Selma who helped efforts that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died at 85, just days before he was to be honored at the Martin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast.
The life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was remembered with events in downtown Montgomery on the federal holiday in his memory.
As part of the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Mount Zion AME Zion Church held a preview of its Memorial Annex, which preserves the site that played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Federal judges have ruled that Alabama intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black residents when it redrew congressional lines and said the state must continue using a court-ordered map that led to the election of the state’s second Black congressman.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Montgomery to commemorate the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.
People from across the country spent the weekend in Montgomery to mark the 60th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights.
The City of Montgomery has several events planned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march of 1965.
About 50 people who want to retrace the steps of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march of 1965 have set off on their own journey.
