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HISTORICAL FACTS: 3 - The Untold Story

‘It’s good to think strategically’: Thomas E Ricks on civil rights and January 6

In his new book, the historian considers the work of Martin Luther King and others through the lens of military thought

The Guardian - US

Jolissa Fuentes’ family say authorities didn’t take her disappearance seriously. The local police chief replies: ‘This isn’t CSI’

Jolissa Fuentes’ mother tells Andrea Blanco of her frustration with police who she says left the family alone in their search for the missing 22-year-old for days after she vanished. Asked for a response to the criticism, the local police chief asserted: ‘It takes time’

The Independent UK

Jolissa Fuentes: Police say 22-year-old’s disappearance is now considered ‘criminal’ weeks after she vanished

‘This is not normal behaviour for Ms Fuentes. So we are treating this as a criminal matter,’ says Selma police chief

The Independent UK

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Jolissa Fuentes: Everything we know about 22-year-old missing in California

Fuentes was last seen at about 4am on 7 August in Selma, California

The Independent UK

A church at the heart of Selma's 1965 voting rights march is an endangered place

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

WEKU

Fear and loathing: Another Trump rally

Trump spreads the poisonous gospel of white supremacy week after week — and we keep pretending it's not happening

Salon

Madison Cawthorn says Trump backers would send Anthony Fauci to jail and impeach Biden

SELMA, N.C. — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn called for sending Dr. Anthony Fauci to jail and impeaching President Joe Biden during a rally Saturday with former President Donald Trump.

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Will Donald Trump run for president in 2024? He teases NC crowd during rally

SELMA, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump teased a crowd in North Carolina on Saturday about running for a second term in 2024 as he urged voters to elect “America First Republicans” this year.

Tribune News Service

Alabama plan advances to alter name of Edmund Pettus Bridge

Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to alter the name of Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor those beaten as they marched for civil rights in 1965

The Independent UK

On this civil rights anniversary, I’m feeling drained but determined

I’m battling cancer as well as voting restrictions, but I have many more bridges to cross. This is my diary of the Selma to Montgomery march

The Guardian - US

Anniversary of Selma march reminds us how democracy is defended

African Americans won the right to vote because we and our allies marched for it, demonstrated for it, were beaten and died to gain it. After Selma, people of conscience demanded that the country live up to its Constitution and its democratic ideals.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

During a commemoration of the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Elliott Smith's great-aunt pushed him across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in a stroller

The Independent UK

Harris to mark 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary in Selma

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Alabama as the nations marks a defining moment in the fight for the right to vote

The Independent UK

Voter turnout sagging in troubled voting rights hub of Selma

The world knows the city of Selma, Alabama, as a historic beacon in the struggle for voting rights

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Kamala Harris to mark 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary in Selma

Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement

Chicago Sun-Times

The work of Dr. King is still not done

Dr. King would urge President Biden to push hard to overcome those who stand in the way of democracy reform and of economic decency. Yet he also understood that citizen movements are essential. It was Selma that moved the Voting Rights Act in Washington.

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