“If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be working so hard to take it away,” Sewell said. “We are not going back. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever... We will march, we will fight, we will organize, and we will vote until victory is won.”

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2026/05/church-buses-and-charter-buses-are-heading-to-selma-and-montgomery-for-a-reclamation-of-power.html

#montgomery #MLK #selma

The worldwide battle against authoritarians continues. Let's check in:
The protests against the Jim Crow GOP in the South are just getting started. Catch up with "All Roads Lead to the South" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYT4z-YXnco

Two Alabama cities that became the epicenter of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement are again in the national spotlight as people travel to Montgomery and Selma in a call to action against threats to democracy https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2026/05/church-buses-and-charter-buses-are-heading-to-selma-and-montgomery-for-a-reclamation-of-power.html

#politics #uspol #democracy #freedom #selma #vra

The Jim Crow SCOTUS contingent is about to get a very rude awakening. #Selma

May 16, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-16-2026?r=9kpps&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Protest is brewing again in Selma. In the wake of Callais, and the overt gerrymandering and dilution of the Black vote that the Supreme Court now says is legal, protestors marched today. (credit: Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse)

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/selma-rejects-jim-crow-20

#JimCrow #Selma #VotingRights #USPOL