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Laura Flanders & Friends
Are Civil Rights Now Worse than Selma in ‘65?
Season 2
Episode 202
In this special report, Laura heads to “Bloody Sunday” commemoration events in Selma, Alabama to find out how civil rights activists are looking to history to understand — and prepare for — the present. What does people power look like today, 60 years after the Selma to Montgomery marches?
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