The Selma City Council honored a living legend in high school athletics, a foot soldier of the Civil Rights movement and a champion of social justice at their Jan. 27 meeting.
The city council presented a resolution honoring John Solomon for being named the 2024-2025 Alabama Basketball Official of the Year by the Nation Federation of State High School Associations.
“John Solomon demonstrated exceptional dedication, integrity and professionalism as a high school basketball official, serving student athletes, coaches, schools and communities throughout the state,” the resolution says. “Mr. Solomon’s achievement brings honor not only to himself, but also to the city of Selma, serving as a positive example of leadership, professionalism and service to youth and education through athletics.”
The city council declared March 22, her birthday, Dr. Lynda Blackmon Lowery Day in Selma in honor of her “lifetime of service to this community through education, mental health advocacy, historic preservation and civic leadership.”
“She was a courageous participant in the Selma Voting Rights Movement, was jailed nine times for her activism and sustained injuries on Bloody Sunday,” the resolution states.
The resolution also notes her work with the Cahaba Center for Mental Health, Selma AIR, Order of the Easter Star, Optimist Club, National Council of Negro Women and Zeta Phi Beta sorority.
The Selma City Council also declared Sept. 25 Mark Myles Day in honor of a popular youth mentor and community leader who was shot to death on Jan. 16.
The resolution states that Myles “dedicated his life to servant leadership, peacemaking and restorative justice, transforming his own life experiences into fuel for service and dedicating himself to ensuring that cycles of harm did not continue for others.”
He was director of community organizing and restorative justice for the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation. He was also a community organizer, artist and preacher.
The resolution declares his birthday, Sept. 25, to be Mark Myles Day, and “encourages all citizens to celebrate his memory, emulate his commitment to being ‘pure light in the midst of darkness,’ and continue his unfinished work of building a just, loving and restorative world.”
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