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Orrville native and minister turns 100
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Orrville native and minister turns 100

  • Special to the Selma Sun/BBNN

Orrville native Rev. Willie Hobbs Sr. celebrated his 100th birthday with a party on Jan. 18 and four generation of family members and friends …

Online forum on renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge to be held tomorrow
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Online forum on renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge to be held tomorrow

  • By Nathan Prewett
  • Updated

An online community town hall hosted by Selma Matters will be held tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge. The public is invited to participate. The forum will be moderated by Dr. Bernard Lafayette, who is the co-founder of the Selma Center for Nonviolence and LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black […]

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Petition to rename Edmund Pettus Bridge draws thousands of signatures

  • By Nathan Prewett

A petition on change.org to change the name of Edmund Pettus Bridge and name it after civil rights activist and Georgia representative, John Lewis, has drawn thousands of signatures. As of Wednesday afternoon the petition has received more than 120,000 signatures. The call to rename the bridge has been addressed by Selma native and Congresswoman […]

Civil Rights activists to be honored at Selma Interpretive Center on Saturday
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Civil Rights activists to be honored at Selma Interpretive Center on Saturday

  • By Nathan Prewett

Civil rights activists Viola Liuzzo and Patricia Swift Blalock will be honored at the Selma Interpretive Center this Saturday on March 14 alongside the 19th amendment centennial. Liuzzo was a mother of five children and an activist who was killed in 1965 by members of the Ku Klux Klan as she was shuttling marchers from […]