Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus ...

A large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence. This year's ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns ...

The only surviving pre-Civil War hotel in the southeast U.S. will soon open its doors to guests once again. The historic St. James Hotel, located overlooking the Alabama River on Water Avenue in ...

Dadeville travels to Southside - Selma on Thursday, Nov. 6, for a 7 p.m. Central kickoff in Selma, Ala. The game (full page: https://scorebooklive.com/alabama ...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

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 ...