Fifty years ago this weekend, a 25-year-old John Lewis was beaten so badly by Alabama state troopers that they fractured his skull.
Lewis calls the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- where the troopers and and a group of white men deputized into a posse by the sheriff attacked hundreds of peaceful protesters on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965 -- an "almost holy place."
Now a Democratic U.S. congressman, Lewis is returning to Selma -- as he has nearly every year since that historic march -- to remember the fight for voting rights and to push voters across the country to participate in the political process. He also wants people to continue to speak up about the probl
Related Coverage
AllSides Picks
News
News Media Misses Declining LGB Youth Rates, Discrimination Cases, and More
Malayna J. Bizier
October 13th, 2026
Red Blue Translator
Racial Inequity
Red Blue Translator
Racism - Racist
Headline Roundup
Elon Musk Responds to Potential Democratic Investigations After Midterm Elections
October 23rd, 2026
More News about Race and Racism
News from the Left
News from the Center
News from the Right
Euronews