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Obama’s Selma Speech To Invoke Continuing Obligation to the Freedom Struggle
Later this week President Barack Obama will likely invoke America's civil rights struggles from past to present during his visit to Selma on Saturday.
The...
Selma Jubilee Youth Summit Turns Up Issues Facing NextGen Leaders
An extraordinary group of nationally and internationally renowned next-generation leaders and veterans of the voting rights movement will convene for Selma50 to discuss the...
“An All-Star Salute to Selma” Set for Bridge Crossing Jubilee On...
(Selma, AL - February 10, 2015) -- “An All-Star Salute to Selma” docu-concert featuring well-known gospel and R&B artists will culminate nearly a week of...
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Top Names Featured at ASBCC’s Entrepreneurs and Innovators Conference
What do a former U.S. Congressman, a designer for late South African President Nelson Mandela, a small business maven, a musical arranger for Stevie...
Free “Start & Grow Your Own Business” Seminar Saturday
(Birmingham, AL -- Nov. 5, 2012) -- Joseph Dees of Dees Consulting will host a free business planning seminar, "Start and Grow Your...
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Continue to the categorySelma Jubilee Youth Summit Turns Up Issues Facing NextGen Leaders
An extraordinary group of nationally and internationally renowned next-generation leaders and veterans of the voting rights movement will convene for Selma50 to discuss the...
Emerging ChangeMakers Leaders Set New Horizons At Selma50
Jessica Norwood has been bringing the most talented up-and coming-leaders from around Alabama together in Selma during the Bridge Crossing Jubilee since 2006.
Her Emerging...
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Selma Jubilee Focuses on Restoring Voting Rights for Bloody Sunday’s 50th Anniversary
"Remember, Recommit, and Restore" is the 50th Anniversary theme of the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee that hosts an annual pilgrimage to honor the "Bloody Sunday" March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7,...
“An All-Star Salute to Selma” Set for Bridge Crossing Jubilee On Sunday, March 8
(Selma, AL - February 10, 2015) -- “An All-Star Salute to Selma” docu-concert featuring well-known gospel and R&B artists will culminate nearly a week of activities commemorating the 50th Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" on Sunday,...
Montgomery Announces City Events in Selma50 Anniversary
MONTGOMERY – City, county and community leaders in Alabama's capital hosted a media briefing Thursday to update the public on plans for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March.
"Today, we want...
President Obama Budgets $50 Million to Restore Civil Rights Sites
President Barack Obama is calling for $50 million to restore national parks sites associated with the civil rights movement to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
The president’s budget -- which has...
Obama Returns to Alabama As President for Selma50 Anniversary
The former Senator from Chicago, IL, who crossed Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge as a presidential candidate in March 2007 will return to Alabama in March 2015 as the sitting 44th President of the United...
Voting Matters: Politics, the Mid-Term and the Next 50 Years
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, born out of the blood, sweat, tears and lives of thousands of Americans citizens who marched across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge en...
