This moment that seems like a setback is actually a setup,” LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told theGrio.

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

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

On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...

The lower Cahaba also winds through history. It passes near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which crosses the Alabama in Selma and is infamous as the site of a 1965 clash between police officers and ...

It won five Academy Awards, including best picture. The soundtrack sold more than 20 million copies. But no one predicted it ...

What is Alabama famous for? Southern hospitality, civil rights history, peanuts and pecan pie are things to experience in ...

A group of Alabama students came to Selma Friday to help plant trees to beautify the city.The group was brought to the city ...

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

Rep. Barry Moore called the vote "an opportunity to show the American people we are united" while Rep. Dale Strong described ...