The family of Dr. Lynda Blackmon Lowery, nationally respected civil rights icon, author, and Selma foot soldier, announces ...

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma will be seeing long-awaited renovations this year, with a tentative reopening date set for March 2026. The building was constructed and designed in 1908 by A. J.

Sheyann Webb-Christburg had just turned 9 years old when she became Selma's "smallest freedom fighter," joining protesters walking from Selma to Montgomery in what would become a turning point in the ...

SELMA, Ala. — Attorney General Merrick Garland told parishioners at a Selma church service commemorating the 59th anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on Civil Rights demonstrators that ...

The church was the starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. Nearly a quarter of the trail’s ...

Buddhist Monks across America stopped through Selma as part of their "Walk For Peace" pilgrimage to inspire the country.

Linda Lowery was just 14 years old in 1965 when she marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in support of voting rights. She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin ...

Phillip Howard, manager of the Legacy Places Initiative for The Conservation Fund, stands in front of the historic Edistone Hotel in Selma, Alabama, which was recently acquired by the Fund. (Courtesy ...

The likely GOP nominee is touring economically distressed parts of the country. SELMA, Ala., April 21, 2008— -- Far from the Democratic battlefield of Pennsylvania, Sen. John McCain, the ...

60 years after Bloody Sunday, thousands gather in Selma to honor a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. AJC’s Senior Reporter Ernie Suggs is on the ground, covering the commemoration of this ...

You know exactly what’s going to happen in “Selma,” the new movie about Martin Luther King Jr. and the struggle surrounding the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but you don’t know how it’s going to unfold. ...

Ava DuVernay can still remember the moment she decided to become a filmmaker. She was already more than a dozen years into her career as a successful publicist when she stood on an East Los Angeles ...