Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

The world saw that. Alabama lawmen, strongarms of the state, swung batons. Lewis fell, his head cracked open by a club.

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

Helen Widen, age 91, died in her home on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Early life She was born in Minnesota on May 15, 1933 to Samuel and Celia Frank. She grew ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, its protections are under threat. Connecticut Public's Khalilah Brown-Dean breaks ...

Mother of 5 killed by KKK after marching for civil rights ...

Food festivals, masquerade galas and pirates top our list of 10 fun things to do on the Space Coast this weekend.

As a photographer for The Birmingham News, he captured defining moments such as the Selma to Montgomery march, the trial of Viola Liuzzo’s murderer, and Governor George Wallace’s 1968 ...