He was among the first rows of people who crossed the Edmond Pettus Bridge on what is known as "Bloody Sunday." ...

"Spell Freedom," by Elaine Weiss, is about Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins and others who secretly helped prepare Black Southerners to embrace their civil rights.

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Murray State University’s Cinema International program is planning to screen the award-winning 2014 docudrama that depicts ...

After the 1870 ratification of the 15th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which barred states from depriving citizens of the right to vote on the basis of race, Southern states began using tactics ...

The SAVE Act’s “proof of citizenship” nonsense is the same play as the state’s SAFE Act, which disenfranchised 30,000 ...

The cities of Selma and Montgomery will soon commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches.

Iowa became the first US state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code on Friday when Gov. Kim ...

An act that would require people to register to vote using paper documentation of citizenship has been a focal point of town halls and petitions this week.

Local officials worry a state voting rights law could open them to new litigation — and change how Colorado's city elections ...