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Susan Collins can help bridge divide on voting rights

Bangor Daily News 02 Nov 2021
history. Earlier that same year, a young civil rights activist named John Lewis helped lead a march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery ... “Selma is a place where we injected something very meaningful into our democracy,” Lewis said in 2014 ... In 2015, Collins joined Lewis and other national leaders in Selma for the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday ... ....
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They're here: HBO show highlights Selma's LGBTQ community

Tuscaloosa News 01 Nov 2021
Growing up in Selma, it was like a prison,” AkeeLah Blu said. As a transgender women who has spent her entire life in Alabama, Blu was used to staying quiet and trying to remain unseen ... Peter LoGreco, who directed the episode, said Selma was different from the other towns where the show had filmed.
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Coroner, buoyed by recent DNA identification of John Wayne Gacy victim, perseveres in trying to ...

Finger Lakes Times 01 Nov 2021
Through the help of genealogical researchers, Johnson knows her family might have been from Selma, Alabama, and surnames could have included Calhoun or Harris ... Her parents may have been from Selma, Alabama; one set of grandparents lived there, which they know by finding out about the grandparents of the possible first cousin.
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Illinois coroner, inspired by Gacy victim identification, continues to try to ID Jane Doe

Dispatch Argus 29 Oct 2021
Through the help of genealogical researchers, Johnson knows her family might have been from Selma, Alabama, and surnames could have included Calhoun or Harris ... Her parents may have been from Selma, Alabama; one set of grandparents lived there, which they know by finding out about the grandparents of the possible first cousin.
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Eddie Kabacinski censured by Warren City Council

Macomb Daily 28 Oct 2021
Controversial Warren councilman Eddie Kabacinski was censured by City Council during Tuesday night’s regular meeting. The resolution to censure Kabacinski was approved 5-2 with Ron Papandrea and Kabacinski voting against it ... Martin Luther King when he was protesting for civil rights in Selma, Alabama ... ....
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Celtics often at epicenter of sports, racial issues in Boston

Boston Herald 25 Oct 2021
Tristan Thompson was trying to be polite, all things considered ... “I had been to Selma (Alabama) ... “There were marchers out front (in Selma), and then there were a bunch of young people like me behind the scenes making sandwiches, making phone calls, fundraising, doing support for the marchers.”. One night Landsmark got lost in Selma ... 26, 1964 ... Dr ... ....
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Alabama lawmakers, advocates lobby for two congressional districts with large Black voter bases

The Grio 24 Oct 2021
Flags fly at half-staff over the Alabama State Capitol where civil rights icon, former US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) lies in state on July 26, 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama ... lol at the Alabama congressional map, that packs African Americans from Birmingham to Montgomery to Tuscaloosa to Selma into one single district (=everything that's blue on this map).
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[WATCH] Who is Rev. Jesse Jackson?

The Source 23 Oct 2021
Who is Rev. Jesse Jackson? The life and work of the Civil Rights activist and two-time presidential candidate has been honored and appreciated throughout the world. Jesse Jackson is an activist who marched in Selma, Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and later became a leading national spokesman for African Americans ... Thank you Rev ... .
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National Voting Rights Leaders Converge On Denver for First-Of-Its-Kind Event To Combat Voter Suppression

CBS News 23 Oct 2021
(credit ... “We got to this moment where I could exercise the right to vote because people saw what happened in Selma, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and got off their couches in Michigan, Colorado, California and Texas and said ‘We’re going to go and demonstrate what this Constitution is really supposed to stand for,” he said.
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MARK HUGHES COBB: On the Kathryn Tucker Windham Stage, saying 'I love you' via stories

Tuscaloosa News 21 Oct 2021
For last weekend's 50th Annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts, the long-unnamed spoken word area – a tented space that's held short plays, poetry, Civil War letters, works from long and not-so-long-ago Alabama and Southern writers, story-spinners of all stripes – finally got a name.
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Alabama pushes rebel monument case after Louisiana dismissal

News Courier 21 Oct 2021
SELMA (AP) — An Alabama prosecutor said Wednesday that he had no plans to dismiss an indictment in an unusual ransom plot involving a stolen Confederate monument, despite a decision by prosecutors in Louisiana to drop related charges there ... .
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The 'Forrest Gump of Activism' Who Helped HIV/AIDS Patients Get Life-Saving Treatment Information

Time 21 Oct 2021
Read More ... He participated in civil rights protests, and in March 1965, traveled to Montgomery, Alabama where he was beaten unconscious while participating in the Selma to Montgomery march—he had to get 20 stitches in his head, according to a June 17, 1997, interview with Marc Stein, creator of the Philadelphia LGBT History Project ... Read more ... .
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Deep South News Digest

Dothan Eagle 20 Oct 2021
— DEPUTY SHOT-ALABAMA — Authorities say an Alabama sheriff’s deputy and a motorcyclist exchanged gunfire during a traffic stop in a rural community, injuring both people ... ALABAMA (All times Central) ... ELECTION 2022-US SENATE-ALABAMA ... Senate race in Alabama ... SELMA, Ala ... SELMA, Ala.
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