The new song's composer thought it could be a way to again hear from Black churches, collectively, about civil rights.

The Dec. 25 release of the movie Selma showcases not only one of the key chapters in the civil rights movement but also one of the most important episodes in American history, one that paved the way ...

Selma, Alabama, occupies a unique place in U.S. history as the site of the pivotal civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965—an event forever remembered as “Bloody Sunday.” ...

On March 7, 1965, hundreds of Black activists, led by John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., set out to march peacefully from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery, demanding an end to ...

In 1972, seven years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, abolishing tools and tactics used to disenfranchise Southern black citizens, Selma, Ala.—the crucible of the civil ...

There are a handful of photographs of Jesse Jackson that capture not only his unique place in history but that also encapsulate the American story of race, injustice and hope. In his time on the ...

Decades after law officers attacked voting rights marchers, we revisit the event that helped spark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and hear what civil rights activists are doing in Selma today.