Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.

After an aborted second attempt, thousands had started out from Selma on March 21. On March 25, Central New York was there with about 50 or more Syracusans! Alethea Connolly’s magnificent and ou ...

In honor of April 11, World Parkinson’s Day, civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson is sharing his experience living with the ...

Selma, Alabama's historic Jackson home, where the 1965 Selma voting rights march was planned, has been moved to The Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. The house was cut in half and moved ...

So we set out confidently to make our nascent plan a reality. Almost a thousand miles away, in Selma, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting rights march to Montgomery, ...

Melody Shari and Mayor Steven Reed honored 1965 Selma marchers and today’s justice leaders at a 60th anniversary reception in ...

Some acts of history are worth more than a moment of remembrance — they deserve action. That belief inspired Daviess County ...

A Selma man who was convicted of the rape and sodomy of an elementary school student in 1999 was denied parole by the Alabama ...