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This photo provided by Perseus Books shows the book cover of “Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement” From the site where enslaved Africans entered America via the port at Charleston, South Carolina to key cities in Alabama's civil rights movement to Jackson, Mississippi, where Medgar Evers was killed, "Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement" gives readers an in-depth look at past events and shows how eerily similar those events mirror the present. (via AP)
The US Civil Rights Trail from SC to Mississippi and more

By Chevel Johnson Mar. 21, 2021 08:23 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 4, 1990, file photo, civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Selma, Ala. From left are Hosea Williams of Atlanta, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Evelyn Lowery, SCLC President Joseph Lowery and Coretta Scott King. This Sunday, March 7, 2021, marks the 56th anniversary of those marches and "Bloody Sunday," when more than 500 demonstrators gathered on March 7, 1965, to demand the right to vote and cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were met by dozens of state troopers and many were severely beaten. (AP Photo/Jamie Sturtevant, File)
Bloody Sunday memorial honors late civil rights giants

Mar. 07, 2021 10:17 AM EST

FILE - In this March 7, 1965, file photo, a state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. The March 7, 2021, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will be the first without the towering presence of Lewis, as well as the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian and attorney Bruce Boynton, who all died in 2020. (AP Photo/File)
Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee to honor civil rights icons

By Kat Stafford Mar. 03, 2021 12:24 PM EST

FILE - In this July 26, 2020 file photo, the casket of Rep. John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis, in Selma, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
Bloody Sunday memorial to honor late civil rights giants

Feb. 22, 2021 06:54 PM EST

Republican Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville throws toy footballs to supporters at his watch party at the Renaissance Hotel on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
GOP maintains lock on Alabama as Trump, Tuberville win big

By The Associated Press Nov. 04, 2020 09:55 AM EST

Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, gestures during his concession speech Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Birmingham, Ala. Jones lost to Republican Tommy Tuberville. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)
Alabama voters approve gun proposal for Franklin County

Nov. 03, 2020 08:02 PM EST

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Middle Georgia Regional Airport, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in Macon, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Trump defeats Biden in Alabama, gains 9 electoral votes

Nov. 03, 2020 08:01 PM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill Biden, speaks at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C. Jill Biden is a prankster. The Democratic Party’s attempt to adapt its typical convention rituals to a pandemic-induced virtual affair will be put through its paces Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
WHAT TO WATCH: Democrats adapt roll call, keynote to virus

By Michelle L. Price Aug. 18, 2020 06:14 AM EDT

The Honor Guard presents the flag that was on his casket to his son, John-Miles Lewis, at the burial service for Rep. John Lewis at South-View Cemetery in Atlanta Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
John Lewis mourned as 'founding father' of better America

By Jeff Martin Jul. 30, 2020 05:26 PM EDT

People view the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state on the East Front Steps of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis lies in state at Capitol

By Bill Barrow And Andrew Taylor Jul. 27, 2020 01:13 PM EDT

Mourners sing during the service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Troy University on Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Troy, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown

By Kim Chandler Jul. 25, 2020 03:17 PM EDT

Breed Love holds signs to show her respects outside Providence Missionary Baptist Church during the funeral service of C.T. Vivian in Atlanta on Thursday, July 23, 2020. C.T. Vivian's private funeral was held at Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta. Biden and Winfrey, were joined by Hank and Billye Aaron, Bernard Lafayette, Andrew Young and Henrietta Antoine, in delivering their remarks via pre-recorded video. Before the services started, the Rev. Damon P. Williams, pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist Church, reminded family members to socially distance and keep their masks on throughout the services. Family members were spread out throughout the large church. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Vivian remembered as courageous, humble Civil Rights warrior

By Jeff Martin Jul. 23, 2020 06:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday night, Sept. 3, 1986, file photo, John Lewis, front left, and his wife, Lillian, holding hands, lead a march of supporters from his campaign headquarters to an Atlanta hotel for a victory party after he defeated Julian Bond in a runoff election for Georgia's 5th Congressional District seat in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Linda Schaeffer, File)
Rights activists, political leaders mourn Rep. John Lewis

By Gene Johnson Jul. 18, 2020 08:26 PM EDT

More cities consider or implement face mask requirements

Jun. 28, 2020 01:31 PM EDT
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More Alabama cities are implementing, or considering, a requirement to wear face masks in public places to curb the spread of the new...

Hundreds of people wait in cars at a site where free food was distributed to residents of Alabama's Black Belt region in Selma, Ala., on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Relief groups are trying to provide aid during the pandemic in the mostly black, historically poor region, which has the state's highest unemployment and coronavirus infection rates. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
Surviving in America's Black Belt amid pandemic and job loss

By Jay Reeves Jun. 10, 2020 06:54 AM EDT

Governor Kay Ivey speaks at a coronavirus update briefing in the state capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday April 14, 2020. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
Alabama clothing plant gets deep clean amid virus concerns

Apr. 26, 2020 05:21 PM EDT