Mar 07 Watch 3:34 How much have voting rights changed since the first march on Selma? By PBS News Hour Chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and political writer for the New York Times John Harwood joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how voting rights have changed the political landscape since the first march on Selma in 1965. Continue watching
Mar 07 50 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ see photos of Selma then and now By News Desk In Selma today, the town of about 20,000 people is roughly 80 percent black and more than 40 percent of residents live in poverty. Continue reading
Mar 07 Video: Obama speaks in Selma on 50th anniversary of civil rights marches By News Desk President Barack Obama and his family were in Selma, Alabama on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of civil rights marches that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Continue reading
Mar 06 Anniversary of Selma march rekindles Ferguson comparisons By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press WASHINGTON — In only a few minutes on national television, the beatings of civil rights marchers by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, dragged the inhumanity of Southern segregation into America’s living rooms as never before. Continue reading
Mar 06 Obama: Racial bias in Ferguson police department not isolated By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to that police department, and he cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement. Continue reading
Mar 05 LBJ linked Latinos, civil rights in ‘Selma’ speech By Russell Contreras, Associated Press Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked a joint session of Congress to respond to the brutal beatings of protesters in Selma, Alabama, by passing a federal Voting Rights Act that would "open the city of hope to all… Continue reading
Feb 18 Alabama governor apologizes to India for alleged police assault on one of its citizens By Shehryar Nabi Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has apologized to India for a police officer’s handling of a 57-year Indian man who left was severely injured and partially paralyzed. Continue reading
Feb 12 Federal judge orders Alabama county to issue same-sex marriage licenses By Justin Scuiletti A U.S. District Court judge ordered an Alabama probate court judge on Thursday to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, the New York Times reported. Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch 4:35 How Alabama politics are motivating a legal showdown over gay marriage By PBS News Hour In 2006, Alabama voters overwhelmingly passed a ban on gay marriage. Last month a federal court lifted that law, but the state’s supreme court chief justice ordered judges to ignore the ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an appeal… Continue watching
Feb 09 Justice Thomas objects to Supreme Court’s refusal to block gay marriage in Alabama By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Thomas wrote that the court "looks the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws" and that "this acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court's intended resolution of that question."… Continue reading