Irish rock band U2 had major success with their 1983 song "Sunday Bloody Sunday." What was the inspiration that helped ...

as clouds of tear gas wafted around the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On March 7, 1965 — a day that would become known as "Bloody Sunday" — 600 marchers heading east out of Selma topped the graceful ...

As Bono explains, songs are more like your parents than your children, bossing you about. This song from 1983 guided U2 in a very clear and serious direction.

Webb-Christburg was 9 — the youngest of the protestors that day. “The picture of Bloody Sunday has never left my heart, nor my mind,” she said. Local police, state troopers and citizens ...

“What happened on Bloody Sunday is worthy of remembering so that we will never forget it,’’ she said. Throughout the weekend, there will be a host of commemoration events spearheaded by ...

Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman ...

Edgar Moore, 74, pointed to where Alabama State Troopers met him and other Bloody Sunday marchers 60 years ago. Many of the troopers were on horseback. Others had police dogs. Moore said he ...

65 photographs by Spider Martin on view now through June 1, 2025, at the the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts reveal an intimate, first-hand perspective of the Selma to Montgomery March in its ...

When it comes to U2, perhaps the only thing harder to find than a nuanced opinion of them is an accurate portrayal of their ...

Newly elected Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District, Ruairí McHugh, this week hosted Independent MP Zarah Sultana at the ...

A large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence. This year's ...