Fresh off the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the Rev. Jesse Jackson brought his message of going “beyond the bridge” to the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
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As President Obama prepared to lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge spanning the Alabama River in Selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of that historic march for voting rights on Saturday, he said that we as a nation have many “more bridges to cross.”
When civil-rights activists converge on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge next Saturday, they’ll have a bigger goal than simply commemorating the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” The 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, helped secure the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
In December, President Barack Obama commissioned a task force to come up with recommendations on how to deal with recent police killings of unarmed black men…
Despite being nominated in only two categories, Selma stole the Oscars Sunday night by virtue of a Best Original Song victory that was preceded by an electrifying performance of the song, “Glory,” by John Legend and Common.
Hundreds of people gathered in New York for the commemoration held on 50th anniversary of the death of activist Malcolm X. (Reuters) By Michael A. Fletcher February 21 NEW YORK — Several hundred…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Columbia University professor Manning Marable claimed Al-Mustafa Shabazz was the man who shot and killed the activist and former Nation of Islam leader in 1965 in…
History, my friends, is being made everyday: a phenomenal thing to truly grasp. Historic “shifts,” impacting how we think, what we think and (hopefully) ever nudging the human race to forge new, more resilient paths to justice. Sometimes, however, those shifts are so rapid and so unassuming that their significance can oft times evade us.