Irish rock band U2 had major success with their 1983 song "Sunday Bloody Sunday." What was the inspiration that helped motivate the track's creation?

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

Bloody Sunday is worthy of remembering The televised brutality on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago garnered national attention and was a turning point in the civil rights movement.

He compared Bloody Sunday to Gettysburg and Lexington and Concord." That day on the bridge was the culmination of a long chain of events, says Alston Fitts, a Selma resident and local historian.

“The picture of Bloody Sunday has never left my heart, nor my mind,” she said. Local police, state troopers and citizens ...

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.

Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence. This year's commemoration highlights ongoing concerns about voting rights under the Trump Administration.

Alabama this weekend is marking 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.

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.

From Bloody Sunday to Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech, James "Spider" Martin was always a step ahead of the demonstrators, walking backwards from Selma to Montgomery.

In 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed toward Montgomery. “We had steeled our nerves to a point where we were so ...