Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were ...

Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, became a pivotal moment in the US civil rights movement, igniting nationwide support that ...

Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...

On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while ...

Christburg was eight years old when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma to ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

To commemorate the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Rep. Terri Sewell introduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) welcomes the reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA) ...