Today a panel of speakers will discuss plans for the 2022Â Selma-to-Montgomery March that is to be held on March 6-11.Â
The theme of the upcoming march is #Fight for the Vote and echoes the marches of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
The following will speak:Â
Hank Sanders, Co-Founder of the Selma-to-Montgomery March Foundation and the Bridge Crossing Jubilee
DeMark Liggins, Chief of Staff of Southern Christian Leadership Conference/SCLC (Sunday)
Bishop William Barber, President of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of The Poor People’s Campaign – A National Call for Revival (Monday)
Reverend Dr.Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair of The Poor People’s Campaign and Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice (Monday)
Bishop Tavis Grant, National Field Director for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition (Monday)
Reverend Deves Toon, National Field Director for the National Action Network (Tuesday)
LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter (Wednesday)
Cliff Albright, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter (Wednesday)
Charles E. Clark, Sr., Southern Regional Director of the AFL-CIO (Thursday)
Cece Huddleston, Voting Rights Trainer for the Prepared to Vote and Voting Rights Defender Projects for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Friday)
Melanie Campbell, President and CEO Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable (Friday)
Barbara Arnwine, Esq, President and Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition
Click here to join the Zoom meeting at 11 a.m. today.Â
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