The movie "Selma" opens tomorrow. It's the story of the marches that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Critic Bob Mondello is not alone in noting that protests over the killing of ...

Ever since Selma, Alabama’s Governor George Wallace has been complaining that the out-of-state press is unfair to Alabama. In April, he sent invitations to 1,700 editors around the country offering to ...

Until this past weekend, it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor. President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that ...

This Sunday, leaders from throughout Alabama and the entire country will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March and the infamous Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.