Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of a historic march in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful protestors advocating for African American voting rights were violently attacked on ...
SELMA, Ala. (WALA) - This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” -- when a group of peaceful, unarmed African Americans were brutally attacked by law enforcement walking across Selma’s ...
A former British soldier, who is being referred to as Soldier F to protect his identity, was in court for the first time Friday as he faces charges for the murders of William McKinney and James Wray ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a moment that marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. The march turned ugly and Lewis was almost beaten to death after enduring ...
The 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the Selma March to Montgomery will be commemorated this weekend with events focused on the themes of education equity, Historically Black Colleges and ...
Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, a group of Black Americans set out on a march from Selma to Montgomery to demand their most fundamental right—the right to vote. They never made it that day. Instead ...
Sixty years ago Friday, hundreds of people tried to march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights for Black Americans, but they were stopped by state troopers who bludgeoned marchers with clubs. We ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about ...
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has been criticised for posting a social media video opposing reforms to the Legacy Act that featured footage of soldiers on Bloody Sunday. The video was shared on ...