Selma and Paris: Two Cities Forever Linked Together In a Movement for Peace
Today marked a critical time in world history. It is not often that two cities are joined together for change. As I watched this morning’s events unfold in Paris France with the peaceful march of solidarity to protest the recent violence, I was struck by events that occurred in my own hometown of Selma, Alabama almost 50 years ago. In March of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other world leaders came to Selma and planned the historic Selma to Montgomery March-a march t