KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The Sunday service at Oasis Tabernacle Church had started like any other: A prayer was recited over the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Amelia Boynton Robinson, who died Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. at the age of 104, is being...
PHILLIP LUCAS, Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA NEW YORK (NNPA) – At 103, Amelia Boynton Robinson may be bound and physically limited by a wheelchair,...
Natalie Robehmed, FORBES (Forbes.com) — The Academy Award-winning epic Selma is on its way to the classroom. Paramount Home Media Distribution announced today that every...
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer This is a critical time when we all must take a look back at how...
Corey Williams, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — For 24 years, a stone marker has stood along U.S. 80 in Alabama’s Lowndes County, near the spot...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago I traveled from Mississippi to Selma, Ala. on March 21, 1965 to join Dr. Martin...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “What could more profoundly vindicate the idea of America than plain and humble people — the unsung, the downtrodden,...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to...
JASON KEYSER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Willie Barrow, a front-line civil rights fighter for decades and a mentor to younger generations of activists,...
KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Dozens of marchers set out across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge Monday with plans to walk to the Alabama...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEW ANALYSIS SELMA, Ala. (NNPA) – Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama was dogged by one question: Is...
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—One of the civil rights movement’s most prominent leaders was absent from the historic re-staging of the 1965 march...
SELMA, ALABAMA (VOA News) – Thousands of people will gather to mark the 50th anniversary of a historic civil rights march on March 7th in the...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a civil rights march in which protesters were beaten,...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press SELMA, Alabama (AP) — President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and about 100 members of Congress are among the thousands of...
(Politico) – Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In only a few minutes on national television, the beatings of civil rights marchers by police on the...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — When the nation’s first black president steps onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Washington lawmakers, local officials and activists prepare to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to...
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, it’s a week to invoke America’s civil rights struggles from past to present. The...
STACY A. ANDERSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday celebrated what he called “the central role that African-Americans have played in every...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to award the Congressional Gold Medal to honor those who participated in the historic Selma civil rights protest...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — What was missing from the Academy Awards turned out to be the issue that could not be...
