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 ...

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

Political science researchers examined travel by congressional delegations — and found it helps boost collaboration across ...

Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights act of 1965, ...

In 1965, a 25-year-old Lewis led some 600 protesters in the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Lewis was beaten by police, suffering a skull fracture.

Residents along Hill Road in New Iberia are once again facing a serious concern: a substantial, growing hole where the bridge meets the road.

Safety of Clark Memorial Bridge discussed at town hall Reducing lanes and enforcing speed limits were both brought up.

The march commemorated the decade since the violent struggle for voting rights began in 1965 with Bloody Sunday at the bridge as police tried to stop a march to Montgomery.

5-Year-Old Deandre Pettus Found Dead In DMV Apartment; Father Now Charged With Murder: MPD A DC father has been indicted for murder months after his 5-year-old son, Deandre Pettus Jr., was found ...

With a poster behind them of a black and white photo of a young Lewis at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, caucus members read excerpts of his columns, speeches and memoir, “Walking ...