(RNS) — Faith leaders will first gather at Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist Church for a prayer service before marching silently on the Edmund Pettus Bridge toward the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.

The Alabama State Conference of the NAACP has announced its official schedule for the 2026 NAACP-sponsored Selma Jubilee Bridge Crossing Weekend, set for March 6–8 in Montgomery and Selma. Held under ...

The demonstrations, organized under the banner “All Roads Lead to the South,” brought activists, clergy members, students, union organizers, and elected officials to the historic sites associated with ...

Amid one of the most difficult eras in American history, the weather in the Southeast did nothing to ease the ongoing fight for justice. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark achievement that ...

A crowd gathered at a pivotal site of defiance in the civil rights movement, this time in opposition to efforts by Republicans to eliminate majority-Black districts. By Rick Rojas Reporting from Selma ...

The historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in behalf of voting rights for Blacks sets out from Selma on March 21, 1965. The late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then head of the Southern Christian ...

Marchers walk for voting rights in Selma, AL on Edmund Pettus Bridge See a prayer march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the National Day of Action for Voting Rights event held in Selma, Alabama ...