Civil Rights

Salute Selma Inc. will soon host a weekend of events to commemorate the Selma to Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The fourth annual Tuscaloosa Heritage Festival hosted by the West Alabama Multicultural Alliance kicks off virtually Friday on the alliance's Facebook page and website.

Prominent civil rights leader and U.S. politician, John Lewis, died tonight of complications from Stage IV pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old.

A former 7-year veteran Tuscaloosa police officer is suing the city, saying her civil rights were violated.

When engaged in conversation about the civil rights movement you are likely to hear names like, Dr. Martin Luther King, Julian Bond, Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to name a few. When it comes to women there are very few names that come to mind...

As I sit here and think about what happened 50 years ago during the Civil Rights struggles, I am happy that I had a chance to help change the course of history by marching and demonstrating. It was not easy and it was dangerous, but I can now tell my children and grandchildren how I was involved.

On this day in February 26, 1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson dies from gun shots inflicted by the police after a voting-rights meeting in Marion, Alabama. In response to the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson the SCLC wanted to march from Selma to Montgomery...