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Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed
By Ari Berman Congress can’t agree on much these days, but on February 11, the House unanimously passed a resolution awarding the Congressional Gold Medal—the body’s highest honor—to the foot soldiers of the 1965 voting-rights movement in Selma, Alabama. The … Continue reading
Alabama state trooper who killed black activist in 1965, sparking Selma march is deathly ill and ‘wants nothing to do with all that stuff going on down there’: daughter
By Rich Schapiro James Bonard Fowler won’t be anywhere near Sunday’s march in Selma. The former Alabama state trooper who killed black activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in 1965 — galvanizing the civil rights movement — is deathly ill and “wants … Continue reading
50 Years Ago Today, “Bloody Sunday” Catalyzed The Civil Rights Movement. Are We Backsliding?
By Inae Oh This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” assault in Alabama, where on March 7, 1965, police violently assaulted hundreds of demonstrators attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery to protest the fatal police shooting … Continue reading
America still hasn’t built racial justice in the years post-Selma
By Steven W. Thrasher America has failed to deliver justice for the many who gave their lives for the Selma to Montgomery marches, and all they stood for. Martin Luther King, John Lewis, and thousands who faced down segregation – … Continue reading
No Republican leaders are going to Selma this weekend. That’s a dumb move
By Chris Cillizza The eyes of the political world will be on Selma, Ala., tomorrow as President Obama will be in town to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches that began there — and drew the attention … Continue reading
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