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Selma gears up for the 58th Jubilee

People will come from all across the country to celebrate the 58th Annual Bloody Sunday Anniversary in Selma. During the civil rights movement people marched from Selma to Montgomery to…

Biden to visit Selma for Bloody Sunday anniversary

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY (AP) - President Joe Biden will travel to Alabama on Sunday to mark the 58th anniversary of a landmark event of the civil rights movement. Biden will speak in Selma for the annual remembrance…

In Selma, foot soldier's kin boosts youth voting rights role

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press During a commemoration of the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery Elliott Smith's great-aunt pushed him across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in a stroller. Decades later, just before her passing, Smith switched…

Kamala Harris to mark 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary in Selma

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement. Harris will speak in Selma at an event marking the 57th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." That…