James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was ...

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

50 Massachusetts college students are on a pilgrimage from Boston to Alabama. The group, organized by the New Democracy Coalition, will walk over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the anniversary of ...

A censure by one’s peers isn’t exactly crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The man was guilty ... Charles Sumner, an antislavery Republican from Massachusetts, was bent over his desk working ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after an initial attempt ended in a bloody attack against the marchers at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. Dr. Poussaint said police threatened to arrest him ...

Boston, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts, is often considered the birthplace of the American Revolution. Walking through ...

Along with activist Hosea Williams, Lewis led the landmark 1965 march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... Ph.D. from Harvard University in Massachusetts, his birth state ...

Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who Marched in ...

Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating the ...