"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.

The late, great Gerry Goggins hired me in 1986 to write freelance reviews and produce the Film Clips column in the Gazette’s Time ... White City Cinemas was just across the bridge in Shrewsbury, and ...

Corita Kent, gives voice to significant moments in the film. One of the sisters marched with Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... them. A clip from the documentary ...

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 ...

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 time Sunday. Sunday found him crossing ...

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 ...