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Women who inspire: these stories shine a light on difference makers

Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, write about a woman they each considered a hero.

THE TRUTH ABOUT SELMA: Trump Right, "Civil Rights Icon" Lewis Wrong—It's Now A Hell Hole | Articles

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The long-term significance of the new Covid-19 rescue bill

The long-term significance of the new Covid-19 rescue bill CNN 3/9/2021 Take it from Bernie Sanders. The $1.9 trillion Covid-19 rescue package that squeezed through the Senate on Saturday is the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of the United States. The liberal icon s claim for this bill the centerpiece of Joe Biden s presidential agenda is significant since moderate Democrats like West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin watered down some of its key provisions. The long-term significance of the bill lies not in its immediate stimulus payments of $1400 to some Americans, its extension of unemployment benefits or the extra billions for reopening schools and boosting vaccination drives. The measure includes an array of tax credits for low income families though 2021 in an effort to lift millions out of poverty. The bill s supporters suggest it could cut child poverty by half.

Hundreds risked everything in Selma 56 years ago today. This group is trying to identify them

Bloody Sunday: This group is trying to identify Selma marchers who risked everything 56 years ago today

Bloody Sunday: This group is trying to identify Selma marchers who risked everything 56 years ago today CNN 3/7/2021 By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN © Tom Lankford/The Birmingham News/AP Albert Turner and Bob Mants walk directly behind fellow civil rights stalwarts Hosea Williams and John Lewis, but most of the marchers who took part that day remain unidentified. Debra Barnes Wilson was 8 on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. She and her grandmother, Julia Barnes, joined the voting rights marchers, filing in at the back of the column, but turned back because the elder, an asthmatic, grew short of breath. The girl s grandmother, who raised her, lived in George Washington Carver Homes, across the street from the Brown Chapel AME Church, where marchers congregated before heading across the Edmund Pettus Bridge into what late civil rights icon John Lewis called a sea of blue a phalanx of state troopers standing ready to brutalize the peaceful demonstrators.