To ensure voters are informed, the League of Women Voters of Alabama and the Alabama Poor People’s Campaign teamed up to hold a mayoral candidates forum. More than 60 years ago, civil rights leaders ...

Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...

By Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, Guest Columnist. Sixty years ago, March 15, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, during a Joint Session of Congress said, “At times history and fa ...