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WE WILL TAKE THIS MOMENT TO COMMEMORATE THE BLOOD. THE BLOOD THAT WAS SHARED AND I MEAN SHARED. THE BLOOD THAT WAS SHED AND I MEAN SHED. WE WILL USE THIS OPPORTUNITY EVERY DAY TO NOT ONLY LOOK BACK AND REFLECT, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TO KIND OF MOVE FORWARD. TODAY, THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF BLOODY SUNDAY IN SELMA, THE DAY THAT POLICE ATTACKED HUNDREDS OF CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATORS WHO WERE TAKING PART IN A PEACEFUL MARCH. THE SACRIFICE OF THE FOOT SOLDIERS THAT MARCHED IS HONORED EACH YEAR AT THE BRIDGE CROSSING JUBILEE IN SELMA, �������� 13, MYA CALEB WAS THERE TODAY AND TELLS US WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THE THOUSANDS WHO SHOWED UP. MARCHERS ARE STILL MAKING THEIR WAY ACROSS THE EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE, AND DESPITE THE COLD AND DESPITE THE RAIN THAT FELL EARLIER, THE OVERALL MOOD OUT HERE IS ONE OF UNITY, ONE OF HOPE, ONE OF FREEDOM. AS MARCHERS ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. EACH YEAR, FOOT SOLDIERS AND CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATES CROSS THE EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE TO COMMEMORATE THE HORRIFIC EVENTS OF BLOODY SUNDAY. THERE WAS A SPEAKER YESTERDAY THAT SAID THAT THIS WAS THIS WAS ALMOST LIKE MECCA. AND IT DOES FEEL LIKE A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, MECCA OF WHERE OUR ANCESTORS LAID DOWN SOME OF THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICES FOR US. IT’S BEEN 60 YEARS, BUT MARCHERS FEEL AS IF THERE’S STILL MORE WORK TO DO. SO WE STILL ARE FIGHTING FOR VOTING RIGHTS. WE’RE STILL TRYING TO PASS THE JOHN LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ADVANCEMENT ACT. AND THAT’S WHAT THIS WEEKEND IS ALL ABOUT, IS, IS GETTING VOTING RIGHTS AND BREAKING DOWN THOSE BARRIERS THAT WE FACE. STILL, IN 2025. I WANT TO KEEP ON WALKING. AND THEY SAY THE KEY IS EDUCATING THE YOUTH. WELL, SEE, THAT’S WHY WE GOT TO CONTINUE TO EDUCATE AND MOTIVATE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. THAT’S BEEN MY WHOLE ESSENCE, BECAUSE EVEN THE SELMA MOVEMENT, BIRMINGHAM MOVEMENT, IT WOULDN’T HAVE SURVIVED THE FREEDOM RIDES SIT INS WITHOUT YOUNG PEOPLE. THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE TO SET THEM UP FOR SUCCESS WHILE PASSING THE TORCH. WE GOT INDIVIDUALS TRYING TO ERASE OUR HISTORY, TRYING TO KEEP OUR CHILDREN, YOU KNOW, FROM KNOWING WHERE THEY CAME FROM. BUT MARCHES LIKE THIS HAVE TO CONTINUE TO GET ON BECAUSE WE CAN’T CURE RACISM. WE CAN’T CURE PREJUDICE IF WE DON’T UNCOVER THE PROBLEM. LORD, THAT BLOW FOR FREEDOM SONGS AND HOPE FILLING THE AIR AS MARCHERS CROSSED THE EDMUND PETTUS, DETERMINED TO SOMEDAY OVERCOME. AND THE JOURNEY ISN’T OVER. WITH THE BRIDGE CROSSING TODAY, MARCHERS WILL MAKE A 54 MILE JOURNEY FROM HERE TO MONTGOMERY STARTING MONDAY IN SELMA, MYA CALEB, �������� 13, MYA. THANK YOU. LAST WEEK, SHE HAD THE CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH TWO FOOT SOLDIERS, JUST EIGHT AND 17 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, WHO WERE THERE WHEN THE PEACEFUL PROTEST AT THE EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE TURNED VIOLENT. YOU CAN FIND THEIR FULL CONVERSATIONS RIGHT NOW O