For the 2025 Bridge Crossing Jubilee, there has been a change in the time of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
This year, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday March, the reenactment of the march across the bridge will start at 12 p.m. on Sunday, March 9.
Jubilee organizer Faya Rose Toure said she has received calls asking if the march is at 2 p.m. Also, with the previous national speakers the last three years, the march hasn’t started until 4 p.m.
During a press conference Thursday, Toure and her husband Hank Sanders said that the pre-march rally will start at Brown Chapel AME Church on Martin Luther St. at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 9.
The reason for the change, according to Toure, is to make it more convenient for visiting dignitaries who want to participate but may need to “leave and get back to Washington, D.C.”
The change in the time also makes it easier and more efficient for local law enforcement by having the one big march instead of what was perceived as two marches. “Local law enforcement will close down Alabama Avenue for the pre-march marchers.”
Toure also emphasis that Sunday after the march across the bridge, there will be a benefit concert to raise money for the National Voting Rights Museum. The headliner for the concert will be Selma native and winner of The Voice Asher Havon.
“I want to appeal to the public to support the museum,” Toure continued. “It’s near closing and has already been vandalized. It is the only museum that chronicles not only Bloody Sunday, but what led up to Bloody Sunday.”
Hank Sanders said that a complete list of the guest dignitaries attending the Jubilee this year will be released soon. But he did list Joy Reid, who was recently let go from MSNBC, and author and newspaper columnist Dr. Ben Chavis, who was jailed on false charges back in the 60s or early 70s, will both be at this year’s Jubilee.
The complete schedule of events during Jubilee week is available at www.selmajubilee.com
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