The Selma Police Department is investigating a crash involving a pedestrian at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge around 7 p.m. Wednesday.

A Methodist Civil Rights pilgrimage draws stark comparisons between America's racial justice movement and the decades long ...

The death of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis has sparked national debate over the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- a site of history, but one that's named for a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader.

Attempts to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma aren’t new to Reese. Every few years, a push emerges to rename the historic bridge, the site of Bloody Sunday and the 1965 Selma to ...

Thousands gathered in Selma, Ala., in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the brid… ...

Congressional Democrats have reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation, named after the late ...

Lynda Lowery was 14 when she and hundreds of civil rights marchers were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, an event known as Bloody Sunday. She got seven stitches over her right ...

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1, 2020 in Selma, Alabama.

The death of US Rep. John Lewis on Friday has renewed calls to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, after the civil rights legend. The push to rename the bridge comes amid a national ...

Edmund Pettus sends a message of violence, terror, oppression, White Supremacy, the destruction of the right to vote and death. The Bridge sends a message of non-violence, Freedom, equality ...

Memorial procession to Edmund Pettus Bridge begins After a brief service outside Brown Chapel A.M.E. church, a 9-person military escort carried Lewis' flag-draped casket to a horse-drawn wagon.

US Rep. John Lewis speaks to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment on March 1, 2020, in Selma, Alabama.