First daughters Malia (pictured left) and Sasha Obama weren’t in Selma, Al attending the 50th anniversary ceremony of Bloody Sunday as a family obligation for their father, President Barack Obama. The teens were there for an important history lesson being taught by their dad regarding the civil rights movement. Mr. Obama paid homage to the living […]
50 years ago, John Lewis and Amelia Boynton Robinson bravely faced Alabama State troopers and local police at the tip of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they, and other civil rights leaders, gathered to embark on a march that would change history. They were beaten bloody while national television watched in horror. Today, they took […]
Fifty years ago, police in Selma, Ala., brutally beat peaceful protestors attempting to march over the now infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge — a roadway named…
This upcoming weekend is an emotional one because it marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic and groundbreaking marches from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. Initiated in 1963 because Black people were denied their right to vote, activists and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. bravely marched for equality until 1965, a historic year in which the awful Bloody […]
