SELMA, Ala. (WATE) – This weekend, the nation paid tribute to ‘Bloody Sunday,’ a day that marked a turning point in African-American voting rights 50 years ago. Previous story: Demonstrators in Selma ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. A processional with Lewis’ casket ...

In 1965, Rep. John Lewis was on the front lines leading protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. He reflects on his sobering memory of Bloody Sunday with Melissa Harris-Perry. Then, ...

SELMA, Ala. -- The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. A crowd began gathering ...

Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the ...

This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” -- when a group of peaceful, unarmed African Americans were brutally attacked by law enforcement walking across Selma’s Edmond Pettus Bridge.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on ...

Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms are under attack in ...

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin SELMA, Ala. -- Crowds gather on March 7, 2015, before a speech by President Obama marking the 50th anniversary "Bloody Sunday," a civil rights march in which protestors were ...