Honoring Bloody Sunday 57 Years Later

“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”
― John Lewis

On March 7, 1965 around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. White state troopers violently attacked the peaceful Black demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights, earning the name “Bloody Sunday.”

The original march included civil rights pioneer John Lewis, who was injured in the attack.

Hundreds gathered yesterday to once again walk over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, led by VP Kamala Harris.

People traveled from across the county just to be in Selma.

Many are thankful they could retrace the path of those 1965 foot soldiers, some defying the odds.

It has been 57 years since this courageous protest, and yet today, voting rights are still in danger- especially for BIPOC.

“Today, we stand on this bridge at a different time. We again, however, find ourselves caught in between. Between injustice and justice. Between disappointment and determination. Still in a fight to form a more perfect union. And nowhere is that more clear than when it comes to the ongoing fight to secure the freedom to vote.”

(Vice President Kamala Harris)

The next couple of years will reveal if we are moving towards justice, freedom and democracy- or if we will fall even further away from these ideals.

May we make the ancestors proud.

Get out and vote and never stop fighting for the right.