"Selma," a movie about 1965 civil rights history that opened here Thursday, has gained extra buzz in Omaha’s African-American community in the wake of recent protests.

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - The annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee is happening in Selma this weekend. The event was created to commemorate ‘Bloody Sunday,’ the Selma to Montgomery March, ...

SELMA, Ala. — With the blistering Alabama sun beaming down, the crowd at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge was growing restless. The mass of marchers, which stretched a full city block ...

AMY GOODMAN: Jeffery, I want to end the film when you go to Selma, Alabama, where you spoke to former state Senator Hank Sanders to talk about the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

I’ve enjoyed filling this space with observations, criticisms, and silliness, week after week, year after year. The late, great Gerry Goggins hired me in 1986 to write freelance reviews and produce ...

Movie review: The documentary "Rebel Hearts," which premiered to a sold-out audience at the 2021 virtual Sundance Film Festival, tells the story of the Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters in the Los ...

Lawmakers in Alabama announced legislation on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that will let the people of Selma vote on a new name for its most famous landmark, the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The bridge was ...

Although about 480,000 people have signed one online petition to rename the bridge for Lewis and leaders including Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina and “Selma” movie director Ava DuVernay ...

The body of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who died at the age of 80 on July 17 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the final ...

Some say renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the Georgia congressman who died Friday would dishonor local activists who spent years advocating for civil rights before Lewis arrived in town in ...

Growing calls nationally to honor the late Rep. John Lewis by putting his name on the Alabama bridge where he and other voting rights demonstrators were beaten 55 years ago are being met with ...