Alabama: Sharpton To March With VP Harris On 59th Anniversary Of Bloody Sunday

By National Action Network Photos: Twitter\X\Black Voters Matter New York, NY (March 3, 2024) – Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), will march in Selma, Alabama, with Vice President Harris and a host of civil rights leaders as they commemorate the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Their demonstration will serve as a galvanization in the fight to protect voting rights and diversity in Corporate America, which have been continuously attacked by right-wing legal activists. The demonstration will start at 3:15 p.m. at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Rev. Sharpton has regularly traveled to Selma to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where in 1965 police brutally attacked peaceful voting rights activists led by John Lewis. The nationally televised assault served as a catalyst for President Lyndon Johnson to prioritize the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet the promise and the safeguards of that legislation have been gutted for over a decade, following the Supreme Court’s crushing Shelby v. Holder decision. Since that 2013 dilution of the law, Rev. Sharpton has called for Congress to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act. The legislation, named for the activist-turned-Congressional legend, would create national safeguards to...