Selma News

February is Black History Month, an annual observance that traces its roots back to 1926 when historian Carter Woodson started Negro History Week to honor the legacy and contributions of black Americans.

There's a saying that goes, "You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been." It's a quote that the philosophical side of me tried to argue.

Marquette's "Multicultural Affairs Organization" is calling all students that want to be "agents of change". From March 9-17, participants will travel to Atlanta, Birmingham, Ala., Selma, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Jackson, Miss., and Memphis, Tenn.A While in Jackson, will also donate their time by doing a day of community service.

U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby focused on the national debt, healthcare and tax reform during his Dallas County visit last March.

We spent some more time tonight devoted to Black History Month and examined one of the most explosive episodes dealing with civil rights in the United States; the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches.

Feb. 1, 1960: Four black students sit in at Woolworths' lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest segregation.

Civil rights, labor and immigration activists say they are returning to Selma, Ala.

Early last month, the Mont gomery County Board of Edu cation began the process of evaluating the financial situa tion of the system's middle school athletics programs.

Sarah Dale, from left, Nolanda Bearden, Juan Milhouse and Wesley Henry talk to the "Greening the Selma to Montgomery Trail" project design team Wednesday.

Nearly a dozen officers with the Demopolis Police Department played a role in a large-scale drug bust in Selma Wednesday morning that had been years in the making.

"THE UNDERSIGNED will be in receipt by next boat from the Alabama river, of a lot of home made IRON, consisting of 1/2, 3/8, 3/4 and 1 inch round, and 1-1/2, 2, and 2-1/2 inch flat iron, which will be sold at reasonable prices.

Thousands of people will be Selma bound on March 4 for the 2012 commemoration of the 46th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." The Rev.

The mayor who responded to a federal investigation into his town's alleged abuse of Latino residents by saying he might eat tacos for dinner is back for seconds.

On Saturday night, at precisely 9:19 and 30 seconds, my iPhone, my iPad, my computer and, for all I... Half a loaf is better than no bread at all, it is said.

A Canada Post employee in Sydney places one of the new Viola Desmond stamps on an envelope Wednesday.

The biggest Selma drug bust in recent memory netted more than two dozen suspected dealers in a collaborative effort involving law enforcement agencies on the ground and in the air.

As Goldy reports in this week's paper, we've already rejected them three times in Washington State, and data show traditional public schools outperforming them, but now charter schools have wealthy backers and a new legislative push Olympia.

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One of the nation's eminent civil-rights activists was in Phoenix this week, lending his name to an old cause with a new cast: human rights.

The highlighted portion of the map shows the area for which the design charrette is being held.