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SELMA, Alabama — The water towers that stand tall over Selma tell passersby that it's "a nice place to live." But looking around the city, you wonder whether that simple line is trying to compensate for a depressing truth, like a quick paint job laid over a molding wall
Thousands traveled to Selma over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. But those visitors witnessed contradiction of sorts: A city where civil rights history was made is, underneath, a city scarred by racial inequality
The modern United States has left Selma behind. Houses across the city are chipped, molding and fading back to the color palette of the earth. Signs hanging outside shops advertise Coca-Cola, anti-freeze or thermostat repair, but the windows are blown out and the signs are splotchy with red rust, almost as if they've developed a violent rash Read more...
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