Zakiya Sankara-Jabar's cellphone buzzed relentlessly as a deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes throughout the U.S. South laid waste to relatives' homes and churches across a part of Alabama known as the Black Belt.
Nearly every year since the march, Selma and Dallas County have welcomed back hundreds to thousands of movement footsoldiers, tourists, politicians and activists who ceremonially cross the Pettus Bridge to commemorate the sacrifices of those who bled for democracy. But when the annual celebration is over, the Black Belt continues on as a working class region struggling to deal with gun violence and drug addiction, much like many U.S. communities, but with far fewer resources.
The city is famed for its historic sites: Pettus Bridge, where the Selma-to-Montgomery march is commemorated; Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference worked with local activists during the Selma movement; and the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, founded in 1991 and opened near the bridge.
It is not hyperbole to consider Selma's downtown district hallowed ground. It's the place from which the late Amelia Boynton Robinson, a Selma voting rights strategist and civil rights movement matriarch, convinced King to get involved in the movement, hoping he would help nationalize the voting rights struggle. It's where the late Georgia congressman and voting rights icon John Lewis was beaten nearly to death by state troopers as he crossed the Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.
And undoubtedly, the community and areas of Dallas County will still be cleaning up and rebuilding from Thursday's tornadoes. The jubilee is a cherished community tradition and it provides some degree of economic stimulus, she added.
This is makes Canadian news?
CTV: Can we fit racism, climate change and a natural disaster into one article? 🤭
Back when ethnicity was a problem from xenophobic primitive minds
I’m confused? A weather event in a geographic location pushed you to show a picture of an historic event…when it rains in Berlin do you show a picture of Hitler?
Sounds like a racist tornado to me.
Instead of worrying about the victims of a tornado, lets jump in the way back machine to the 60's and the riots of the time in Selma! Why report the news of the day when the media wants you to be WOKE!
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