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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

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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

The Independent UK

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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