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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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

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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."…

Same-sex marriages to begin in Alabama after Supreme Court refuses stay

By Justin Scuiletti

Alabama became the 37th state in the U.S. to allow same-sex marriage on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused a stay on the state's 2006 ban.

Harper Lee's second novel, 'Go Set a Watchman,' to be published in July

By Joshua Barajas

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee will finally publish a second book, 55 years after Scout lead Boo Radley home in "To Kill a Mockingbird," her publisher announced Tuesday.