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Bloody Sunday is considered one of many stains on America’s self-righteous story of “freedom” with “liberty and justice for all.” On March 7, 1965, Black of us have been nonetheless thought of undeserving of America’s “dream.” Thankfully, just some years prior, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave us a special one to imagine in. So as to deliver these idyllic ideas into actuality, 600 Black women and men confronted unspeakable violence and dying whereas marching throughout the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to demand the appropriate to vote.
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Quick ahead to March 9, 2025, the place 1000’s of Black our bodies, together with these of politicians, activists, and legendary civil rights figures, marched throughout the exact same bridge to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of that notorious day.
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Former MSNBC anchor Pleasure Reid was seen with Native Land podcaster and political analyst Angela Rye
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Members of the Alabama Freemasons additionally made their most worshipful presence felt on the bridge.
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Democratic Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) was additionally in attendance and in line with AP Information, took the pulpit at Tabernacle Baptist Church to speak in regards to the challenges that we now face underneath the second Donald Trump administration, “At this second, confronted with hassle on each facet, we’ve acquired to press on.”
On the identical day in Little Rock, Arkansas, the native NAACP chapter helmed by Deborah Springer Suttlar organized their very own march to indicate solidarity with these in Selma. She additionally spoke in regards to the renewed vigor from Republicans to make voting harder and extra inconvenient in hopes of limiting particular voters, us.
Through KARK:
“The proper to vote is in jeopardy by so many legal guidelines enacted to forestall us from having equal entry to the poll,” stated Springer-Suttlar.
60 years later, and the struggle ain’t over. Get your thoughts proper and get your head within the sport.
