This week marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most disturbing protests of the Civil Rights Movement. The 1965 Selma marches would later be known as “Bloody Sunday,” citing the violent attacks ...

SELMA, Ala. – Down a gravel path of a winding one-lane country road, beneath the largest tree in the surrounding woods, a headstone stands tall among the others. It rests atop a six-layer bed of ...

The unlawful killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis while protecting frpm federal agents a woman who was engaged in lawful protest reminds us of the killing of Jimmy Lee Jackson in Selma, Alabama, in ...

"Bloody Sunday"--March 7, 1965--was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in nearby Marion, a state trooper, claiming self-defense, shot ...

On this day in history, April 8, 1974, Mobile native Hank Aaron stepped to the plate for the Atlanta Braves and broke Babe Ruth's all-time record. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office held its ...