Selma may have been ground zero for unity in the civil rights era, but the Queen City has struggled to continue that message.
Ainka Jackson, executive director of the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation, said Selma still suffers from violence in various forms, most notably physical violence that was shown in a drastic manner last weekend when a fight ended with a teen shot to death and two other teens facing murder charges in an apparent case of retaliation.
Selma needs to regroup and find ways to stop the violence and become the example it was 60-plus years ago, Jackson told the Rotary Club of Selma on Monday.
Her group calls it Selma 2.0.
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