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Brown Chapel A.M.E Church reopened Sunday after a five-year closure due to renovations. But for many speakers commemorating the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, many of the issues of civil rights and voting access remained as timely — and dire — as they were in 2020, and even 1965. “The …

Vice President Kamala Harris and numerous civil rights, voting rights, social justice, political and labor leaders were in Selma, Alabama on Sunday commemorating the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the crossing of Edmund Pettus Bridge. The Vice President was joined by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Secretary …