This pic is exactly how I feel about Tuberville.

Hey #AL, #Alabama why is your senator (who doesn't even actually live in Alabama) assisting foreign adversaries?

Tell him to let military promotions go through. He's holding up every last one in an effort to cripple our defense response to any global or national crisis.

Also, more media attention on this please.
#CNN #MSNBC @msnbc @ABC @nbc #NBC #ABCNews #Birmingham #USpolitics #Military #USMilitary #NationalSecurity #HomelandSecurity #Selma

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Bart x Selma

#animation #thesimpsons #the_simpsons #bart #selma #milf #aunt

@gparenti so where might you be now? We just returned from 10 days in the South. Drove via Macon/Warner Robbins on the way back north. #Selma #EdmundPettusBridge and #Montgomery were eye opening to say the least.

Today in Labor History March 21, 1965: 3,200 people began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. This time they were defended by national guards and FBI agents. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilRights #MartinLutherKing #racism #JimCrow #fbi #VotingRights #selma #montgomery #alabama #PoliceBrutality

Song of the Day March 13 2023

In honor of the birth of Lonnie Rashid Lynn bka Common

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(rapper)

Common and John Legend - "Glory" (From "Selma")

https://youtu.be/HUZOKvYcx_o

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #Music #March13 #Common #JohnLegend #Glory #Selma #AcademyAward #BestSong #OscarWinner #MusicVideo

Another excerpt from Dr. King's eulogy for James Reeb in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965, as cited by Pierce:

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

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Prior to his murder, the national press tended to ignore violence being visited by white men on black civil rights marchers, including the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, in February 1965.

Charles Pierce says that this is the real history of our nation that some people want to suppress, to keep children from learning — the ongoing struggle for justice that forms the core narrative of an always unfinished American democracy.

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

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Yesterday, Charles Pierce memorialized James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston who died on 11 March 1965 after having been savagely beaten by white men in Selma, Alabama, after he and two other Unitarian ministers from Boston took part in the Selma march for voting rights.

Reeb was 38 years old. He left a young widow and four young children.

#CivilRights #BloodySunday #JamesReeb #Selma

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43273867/republicans-history-forgetting/

Today in Labor History March 7, 1965: “Bloody Sunday" occurred in Selma, Alabama, with state troopers attacking civil rights marchers. People had been protesting the disenfranchisement of African American voters. From January-February, 1965, the police arrested over 3,000 protesters. On February 26, the police murdered activist and deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson. In response, organizers planned a march from Selma to Montgomery.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #selma #BloodySunday #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality #police #racism #murder

Exactly 58 years ago today. #BloodySunday #Selma #BlackMastodon

"During his speech in Selma, Biden reinforced the need to protect voting rights, a “threshold of democracy.” This fundamental right, he said, is under assault by the conservative Supreme Court and “a wave of states and dozens of voting laws fueled by the Big Lie and the election deniers now elected to office.” "

#History #USA #Selma #Racism #VotingRights

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/biden-bloody-sunday-selma-voting-rights/

"How Selma's 'Bloody Sunday' Became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement"

https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement

#BloodySunday #Selma #JohnLewis

Despite #Biden's repeated calls to hire 100,000 more cops to #police the country, it's worth it to remember and appreciate that he nominated #KristenClarke as the Assistant Attorney General for #CivilRights. She spoke at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast in #Selma yesterday:

"The Bloody Sunday march was itself spurred by the beating and murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson by Alabama state troopers, yet police violence remains with us"
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-kristen-clarke-delivers-remarks-martin-coretta-king-unity
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#DOJ

"The Week Ahead"

#JohnLewis #Selma #BloodySunday #NeverForget #VotingRights

"The Week Ahead"

by @JoyceWhiteVance

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-week-ahead-06b?r=yteu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@JoyceVance

It is disgraceful and shameful and sadly unsurprising that any president—whether Black or white, in addition to some Black congresspersons in Selma—comes to Selma to commemorate #BloodySunday and not call for that Klansman’s bridge he is speaking from to be renamed. DISGRACE.

#BlackMastodon #Mastodon #politics #Selma #usa

Today's Letters from an American
#JimmyLeeJackson
#JamesReeb
#ViolaLiuzzo #Selma #JohnLewis #Votingrights

I fear there will be more deaths in the effort to secure voting rights. These were heroic people who lost life and limb to broaden democracy

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-5-2023-sunday?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

What really happened in #Selma

"In the 1960s, despite the fact Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, #Alabama, the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, local Black organizers launched a voter registration drive.

It was hard going. White Selma residents had no intention of permitting their Black neighbors to have a say in their government."

#bloodysunday #blm #HeatherCoxRichardson #vote #votingrights
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-5-2023-sunday

How far we have come where a black and white Alabama State Troopers stand side by side to make sure the Pettis bridge is safe for the crossers.

And yet, so far to go.

#voting #pettus #selma #votingrights #statetrooper #alabama #US #remember #freedomriders #photomonday #photography #photographer #photojournalism

Heather Cox Richardson shares the story of #Selma and #CivilRights. We need to understand our history so we are not doomed to repeat this.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-5-2023-sunday?r=e3dav&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Reflecting on Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ 58 years later

https://youtu.be/p13yuKwGb7o

#news #politics #uspolitics #history #selma #bloodysunday #votingrights