When I think about what we can learn from the Selma marches, the single most important advice I give is to listen to others.

"My encouragement to them is get in the fight now," says Lydia Chatmon, director of programs at the Selma Center for ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

America’s climactic battle for civil rights took place in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago. The March in Selma focused on voting ...

He had no appetite for another battle a year later. However ... King and Wallace both knew that if violence occurred on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma that people throughout the country would lean ...

ELLIOTT: That's Lydia Chatmon, director of programs at the Selma Center for Nonviolence. From the 1865 battle of Selma at the end of the Civil War to the 1965 voting rights battle, she says Selma ...