Congressman John Lewis

Federal judges on Tuesday sharply questioned lawyers on a request to make Alabama subject again to the preclearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act after courts ruled the state intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black residents.

Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights act of 1965, their latest long-shot attempt to revive the landmark law just days before its 60th anniversary and at a time of renewed debate over the future administration of American elections. The bill is named for the late John Lewis, who was injured during the 1965 attack on voting rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.

Protests and events against President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid and other safety nets for poor people have started Thursday at more than 1,600 locations around the country. The “Good Trouble Lives On” national day of action honors the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis. The late activist and Congressman was among the voting rights marchers beaten and tear gassed in 1965 as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma

A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center. Regan Prater was arrested last week and charged with one count of arson. Rosa Parks and John Lewis trained there.

A Montgomery-based nonprofit organization that advocates for civil rights and racial equality is inviting the community to honor those who lost their lives in the fight for justice. The Civil Rights Memorial Center will kick off the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Weekend with its annual wreath laying ceremony on March 7, followed by a rally for voting rights protections.

2025 includes three key anniversaries in Alabama’s fight for civil rights. This December is the seventieth anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This year also marks sixty years since two events in and around Selma. Next week marks the sixtieth anniversary of the civil rights incident known as “bloody Sunday,” and the shooting that inspired it. An Alabama State Trooper shot activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, who died eight days later. APR news collaborated with the University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television to bring you this account from someone who was there…

The first life-sized sculpture honoring Representative John Lewis has been unveiled in Alabama. The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) showcased the new display at Legacy Plaza in Montgomery, across from the Legacy Museum. The statue joins the sculptures of Rosa Parks and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Alabama to commemorate the 59th anniversary of a landmark civil rights moment.

The Civil Rights Memorial Center, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alabama State Office, opens Jubilee weekend with its annual wreath laying ceremony. The event is set for Friday, March 1, at 1:00 p.m. in downtown Montgomery.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Junior mapped out the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan. The structure will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation.