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From the West Alabama Newsroom–
Historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma just broke ground on a $1.3 million dollar restoration project that will help preserve it’s history and carry it into the future.
Brown Chapel is listed as a National Historic Landmark.
And the new restoration project is just a first step in an on-going effort to totally restore an iconic piece of American history.
“People keep coming,” said Project Manager Juanda Maxwell.
“They want to see the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And they want to see Brown Chapel Church.”
The church was the headquarters for the Voting Rights Movement of 1965 and the starting point for the marchers who were attacked on Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery march.
Collaboration helps with COVID vaccination outreach with Black, Latino residents in Washtenaw County
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
Posted Apr 14, 2021
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks with the Rev. Larry Davis, pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church, as she visits a vaccine clinic at the EMU Convocation Center on Monday, April 12, 2021.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News
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YPSILANTI, MI Pop-up vaccination clinics are being credited by Washtenaw County leaders as a key part of combatting the disproportionately low number of Black and Latino residents getting shots.
Five pop-up vaccine clinics were done in March in areas most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 2,084 doses administered at schools, churches and community sites, 239 (11.5%) of those vaccinated were Hispanic or Latino, while 606 (29%) were Black.
Whitmer, Dingell tour Washtenaw County vaccine clinic, aim to increase access for vulnerable persons
Updated Apr 12, 2021;
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YPSILANTI, MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell at Washtenaw County’s mass vaccination clinic Monday morning to encourage Michiganders to get vaccinated to discuss efforts surrounding vaccine access and equitable distribution.
The leaders highlighted efforts made by the Washtenaw County Health Department as well as St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, which has partnered with the health department to support its vaccine clinics.
Dingell, D-Dearborn, and Whitmer were joined on the April 12 tour of Eastern Michigan University’s Convocation Center by Washtenaw County Health Officer Jimena Loveluck; Alonzo Lewis, CEO of St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor and St. Joseph Mercy Livingston hospitals, and the Rev. Larry Davis, pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church in Ypsilanti.
John Lewisâs Final Fight For Voting Rights
Democrats big reform bill contains 300 pages expanding voting rights that were written by the late civil rights leader.
By Paul Blumenthal
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Images
As Congress debates the passage of a sweeping reform bill targeting voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting and ethics, Democrats in the House and Senate have the name of a colleague who is no longer with them on their lips.
Rep. John Lewis, who died last year, dedicated his life to expanding and protecting the right to vote. He was attacked for it. And he was elected, in part, to help preserve it. He ultimately helped write part of the bill that Democrats are now pushing to enact.
This year's commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans will honor four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in 2020, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.