KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Dozens of marchers set out across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge Monday with plans to walk to the Alabama...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEW ANALYSIS SELMA, Ala. (NNPA) – Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama was dogged by one question: Is...
SELMA, ALABAMA (VOA News) – Thousands of people will gather to mark the 50th anniversary of a historic civil rights march on March 7th in the...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a civil rights march in which protesters were beaten,...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press SELMA, Alabama (AP) — President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and about 100 members of Congress are among the thousands of...
(Politico) – Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In only a few minutes on national television, the beatings of civil rights marchers by police on the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A very public conflict between the Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Inc., the local group that has been commemorating...