One of the most pivotal periods in civil rights history is finally coming to the big screen. Selma, depicting Martin Luther King Jr.’s voting-rights campaign and the weeks of bloody protests in Selma, ...

When Common accepted his Golden Globe for Best Original Song – “Glory” from the movie "Selma" – he invoked civil rights struggles past and present, celebrating not an award, but the legacy of Martin ...

Selma, Ala.: In 1965, when nonviolent activists in Alabama made that valiant trek from Selma to Montgomery for the right to vote, the Rev. Frederick D. Reese was in the front row, leading the way with ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In this image released by Paramount Pictures, David Oyelowo portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a scene from "Selma." The ...

For historians, watching a movie “based on” historical events often is an exercise in restraint. While the historian and filmmaker are both, by nature, storytellers, the former builds a narrative ...

David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King in the new movie Selma. It's hard to believe, but there has never been a major motion picture that centers on one of this ...