This Jubilee was a revival of spirit and purpose, not a retrospective, with the goal of encouraging people in the audience to ...

Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating the ...

But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers. “They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was ...

However, that didn’t stop a gang of Alabama State Troopers from assembling on the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they would tear-gas and violently attack the marchers with the batons.

Standing by the Alabama River with the Edmund Pettus Bridge behind, Ainka Sanders Jackson, a former public defender, reflects on change, "we have seen progress, but progress is slow." "We believe that ...

Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten.

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...

John Lewis and Hosea Williams led the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. SELMA, Ala. - On Sunday, March 9, 2025, a large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 60th ...