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>> good evening and welcome to politics nation. live from selma, alabama. tonight's lead. stay woke. moments ago here in selma, i joined the commemorative march across the edmund pettus bridge in salute to those that braved bloody sunday. here, right here. 60 years ago this weekend, being part of the march, at least the last 20 years i've marched at least 20 times has been one of the great honors of my life as an activist. but missing from much of today's observance was the joyousness of previous years. rather, today's gathering was a red alert, a screeching

call to arms because the civil rights community is facing its greatest assault in six decades, from a trump administration that is brazenly undermining black advancement, erasing black history, and attacking black participation in our public life and our private institutions. so tonight, live from one of the most important sites in our nation's history. i'll be talking to three black members of congress about the generational threat of trump 2.0 to voting rights, civil rights, the human rights that brave men and women, black and white, face death for here in selma 60 years ago today. joining me now here at the national voting rights museum and institute, congresswoman terri sewell and congressman shamari figures, both democrats of alabama and

the congressman jonathan jackson, democrat of illinois and son of civil rights icon, the reverend jesse jackson, who was also with us today. first of all, let me thank you all for being with us. let me start with you, congresswoman sewell. you have you're from selma and you grew up here, and you watched it unfold all your life. you were surrounded by people that had fought the fight, and you were part of the fruit that they bore. tell us how you felt today, particularly when a lot of what they fought for is under assault. >> well, first of all, rev, it's. >> great to be. with you and great to. >> be with my colleagues on. >> this, the 60th anniversary of bloody sunday. yes, i'm a daughter of selma. i grew up in the historic. brown chapel ame church. and so year after year, those. >> foot soldiers would come back. >> even before it was popular. >> to commemorate. what

happened. >> on bloody sunday. you know, if. >> we don't. >> tell our history. >> others will tell it and. >> they may. >> not get it right. >> and it was important to those foot. >> soldiers to. >> remind america. >> of what. >> happened on bloody sunday. and you are absolutely right. >> this year felt different. >> this 60th anniversary. >> was an. >> opportunity for us to. remember and. >> to reflect. >> but it also was a call to action. we are facing challenging times. >> when many. >> of the civil rights and voting. >> rights that were hard. >> fought right. >> here in alabama are being attacked and under assault. >> the voting. rights act. >> used to be very bipartisan. it was reauthorized three times. >> under five times under. three republican. >> presidents. >> and most. >> recently by. >> george w. >> bush in 2006. and you will remember. >> on the 50th anniversary. he came back. >> he and. >> laura bush came back, along. >> with president obama and mrs. obama. >> and so. >> it is scary that the gains that were made have really been under assault. it goes to show

you that progress. >> is elusive. >> and every generation has to fight to hold on to the progress that we've made, lest we lose it. but i believe that selma is still now. it's still relevant. the people who came and walked in selma and marched in selma, they were strategists and tacticians. they didn't just happen upon selma, alabama. and so i think in this time of challenge, we can find inspiration from the roadmap, the playbook, if you will, of those foot soldiers. >> and those foot soldiers caused your family's been involved. congressman of figures for all of your life, and you are now holding that banner, you the baton in your hand as a representative in alabama, a red state that has always been an uphill battle. you're continuing to fight. now for some of the things that we thought was resolved voting rights, civil rights, the respect of people's diversity, inclusion and the

whole idea of equality. how do you and your generation look at this, and how do you see this day in that context? >> yeah. >> you you first. >> have to be. >> mindful and. grateful for the sacrifices. >> that were made. >> for you. >> for the. people that came before you, the people that marched across that bridge, john lewis and amelia boynton robinson and others. for us to be able to have that vote, i mean that i would not be here without selma, alabama. i don't think any of us would be here without selma, alabama. but now it is clear that it's up to the next generation. when i was growing up as a child, you could not have convinced me. in the late 80s and throughout the 90s and early 2000 that i would have to sit here one day and actually be fearful of us losing the rights that we learned about in the history books. but here we are. we're seeing this administration roll back protections. we're seeing this administration through policies that they're putting in place, call into question things as as

nonpartizan and things we should just be unanimously agreeing upon, like the tuskegee airmen role in this history, eeoc protections that have been in place since the early 60s, funding to hbcu land grant colleges, while not touching non hbcu land grant college funding. and just most recently, we just saw and congresswoman terri sewell and i just had to do a press conference in montgomery outside the freedom ride museum, because that bus station where john lewis was almost killed with other freedom riders, has been listed by doge as a building for sale. and so my generation. >> listed by doge. >> listed by doge. >> as a building for sale. >> as for sale. and this is the building where john lewis and other freedom riders and white men and women who were on that on that trip with them, were beaten almost, you know, to death. and that history is what we have to protect. and that burden falls to my generation, and we have to be serious about understanding what we are seeing this administration do in the context of civil rights, and make sure that we're doing everything to educate and motivate people to get out and

take advantage of the rights that were secured just outside that door, coming across the edmund pettus bridge 60 years ago. >> congressman jackson, you are from chicago, but you're rooted here in selma. in fact, your father, who was here with us today, despite the fact he has health concerns, he was here today. and you wheeled him across that bridge as you have walked across that bridge within many years. and you, who was doing very well as an entrepreneur, decided you were going into public service and have done that all with a kind of passion that we have not seen in a long time. tell us how you feel sitting there watching your father and then watching your generation, as they now are facing some of the obstacles they face. well, thank. >> you for. >> having me on, uncle al. >> my first thought is the civil rights act 1965. i'm born in 1966. i'm the first generation of african americans that was born with.

>> equal rights. >> after 346 years, 1619 to 1965. i'm the first generation. so as i get older, it strikes me even more hard. and to know that after the students for fair admissions versus harvard, that my children have less rights than i've had my entire life growing up, there's been a reversal, a rollback in time when the president attacks diversity, equity, inclusion. these are aspirational goals. these aren't laws. if this is something that a corporation wants to do to expand access and opportunity for their clients, and to create shareholder values and to express freedom of speech, they should be able to retain those values. e pluribus unum. out of many. >> we are one. >> that's a call for diversity. 14th amendment, equal protection. that's a call to our values inclusion, curb cuts for those that have different abilities, and accessibility for those that need glasses and hearing aids. these are american

values. so it's just absolutely irrational. and it's also very much race based to knock our children out of job opportunities and employment opportunities and educational opportunities. so being here today just gave me a the there was two sides to that bridge. one was looking back and the other is looking forward. because we crossed that bridge, we won. and we're going to continue to win and we're going to win again. but the fight is on. >> we won. terri sewell, you're a congresswoman. you grew up where amelia boykin and others were tear gassed on that bridge. we walked across, beaten by alabama state troopers. yet you're a member of congress, which was unthinkable 60 years ago. and as you are in the community and have grown up among those that were the original foot soldiers, what can you say today to those of us that are complaining about the retrenchment of a lot of those rights? what should we take from this day? >> i think that what i'd like

for folks to take is an opportunity to reflect on the significance of what happened 60 years ago, but to rededicate ourselves to the challenge and. >> to. >> the cause for which those marchers march. it was a call to action in my in my view, i am honored every day, and it's never, ever lost on me that i get to walk the halls of congress as alabama's first black congresswoman, because amelia boynton robinson dared to run in 1964 for this very same seat with 1% of the vote. and, you know, it's because of our foremothers and our forefathers, the sacrifices that they made, that all of us who are sitting here, literally the voting rights act of 1965, changed the color of elected office in america. and i think that what i hope people will take from it is that because progress is so elusive, we have to fight like hell to hold on to the progress that we've made and to try to advance it. and it was coretta scott king who said that freedom

is never won in just one generation. it's fought in every generation. and so this is our battle cry, our opportunity to pick up that mantle and carry it forward. and that baton is a treasured baton. and it's not about one leg of a race. it's about a lifetime. and so, you know, for us, you know, i think that our struggle has always been one step forward, five steps back, two steps forward, three steps back. but i do believe that in this time of challenge and strife, we should learn from our forefathers and foremothers that civil disobedience works, that a call to action and collective voices raising up public sentiment does matter. we've seen that even with this administration, when we actually fought back for the tuskegee airmen, they had to relinquish, we're doing the same when it comes to the freedom rides museum. and so i really believe that rarely does change come from the halls of congress.

it bubbles up from grassroots activism, you know that, rev? and so, you know, it was a beautiful sight today to see so many young and old. >> thousands. >> thousands here in selma again, as a reminder, as a living testament for the power of community activism, grassroots activism. and so, you know, i know that i will not be the last black woman to walk the halls of congress to represent alabama, but we don't want the time period between those to be too, too long. >> congressman figures. one of the things that strikes me is that a lot of people don't realize that there were many people of different races that fought in this struggle in alabama that helped change the nation. we had whites as well as blacks. we had the two jews and a black killed fighting for voting rights. we had viola lewis, who was an italian woman from michigan, wife of a labor

leader. talk about how we're beginning to see, even if we don't, across racial lines, come and embrace each other. we're backing into each other because we're all under assault by an administration that is fighting labor, that is fighting civil rights, that is fighting rights of people to choose who they love. talk about the expansive role of all communities in this fight. this is not just a black day. >> look, i think it gets at the core of what congresswoman sewell and i often talk about is that civil rights history is not just black history. the civil rights movement was not just a black movement. in fact, i think a strong argument can be made that made that the outcomes of the civil rights movement were not, you know, for black people, because black people knew what was being done to them was wrong. they knew it wasn't right for them to be denied places to go eat and not having the right to vote. we needed to educate other people that it was wrong as well and get those protections. but it was an american movement. it was an american. it was an american movement. at the end of the day.

and what this administration is doing is harming all americans as well. and so in the context of them, you know, attacking voting rights in the context of them coming at civil rights history, they are indeed opening up doors of opportunity for them to do other things. and these are the shiny objects, so we can't lose sight of what they're doing just by looking at the shiny objects of the national freedom rides museum or other things that they're doing. because behind the scenes, we know that they're working on a budget that's going to do a lot more damage than the closing of a museum. we know that they're working on reconciliation. that's going to pull back benefits, that's going to disproportionately hit a lot of people people of color, poor people, people of all races. they're going to pull back medicaid, something that's going to hit people of all races. in fact, it's going to hit more white people than black people in this country. >> many of those who voted for this administration. >> absolutely it will. >> i'm going i'm going to have to go to break. i know you have to leave, but i have some questions for jonathan jackson. and i'm not letting congresswoman slowly, either. congressman shamari figures.

thank you for joining us. and we're asking representatives terry sewell and jonathan jackson to stay with us when we come back. the state of voting rights under the new trump regime. and what can we all do about it? you're watching a special live edition of politics nation from selma, alabama. nation from selma, alabama. at bombas, we make absurdly comfortable socks, slippers you'll float in, and underwear and tees that feel like clouds... no, bunnies. visit bombas.com and get 20% off your first order. dermatologist recommended nutrafol. the formulas are clinically tested. >> my hair is much stronger and longer. >> i feel like i'm. >> a completely. >> different person. >> get growing at nutrafol. com. >> consumer cellular is lowering the price for those 50 and up. get two unlimited lines for $30

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preclearance, a vital element of the voting rights act of 1965, which this historic selma march was all about. a reminder, congressman donalds is running for florida's next governor with trump's endorsement. your thoughts? congressman jackson, when you hear someone say that they are for the elimination of preclearance, well. >> what's the effect. of preclearance? the history of states and bodies of government that have had either high participation rates in voting or low participation, low participation rates. if you remove pre preclearance, those bodies that had discriminatory patterns and practices, they tend to go back, revert back to their natural practices and end up excluding more people. so therefore you use the medicine, the antidote of having a preclearance so that things can continue to get better. you don't stop taking your medicine

too soon. mr. byron donalds on a political point was just that the bill maher show. and having given his voting card to someone else to use on the floor, which is a total violation, he's guilty of preclearance violation. those are generally rooms for expulsion. now, if he wants to take the gloves off, i feel very comfortable with that because that's just simply wrong. that's the same sort of jim crow tactics that we have to fight against. now, here's a man who's broken our house ethics rules on voting, so he should not have anything to say about congressman greene or anyone else. he should be standards fo. it's simply wrong. and we're seeing our voter participation going down as a result of that. it's happened all across, which makes us more vulnerable, more susceptible to having laws reversed and getting fewer people on juries. only citizens can sit on juries. we should be pushing forward, advancing the great work that congresswoman terri sewell has done on continuing to push for the john lewis voting rights act. that would make the preclearance part

of the fabric of our society, to continue to strengthen voting laws. so i feel very much in opposition to mr. congressman byron donalds. >> congresswoman, you spoke at the church this morning where many of us spoke and senator warnock gave the morning sermon, and you talked about the john lewis bill. and this is a bill that not only will help our community, african americans, but would really restore a lot of people that have been excluded and that have been marginalized, many of whom are facing now, if medicaid is cut to help billionaires and things across the board. talk about the impact of what is being suggested by doge and by this shift in terms of how they want to do the budget that they're debating right now, which could lead to a government shutdown. >> well, first, i just want to acknowledge that we did on wednesday reintroduce the john lewis voting rights advancement

act, because what we know is that since the shelby versus holder decision in 2013, we've seen nothing but an onslaught of state legislatures across this country making it harder for people to vote. voter suppression being the rule of the rule of the day. and it's simply unacceptable. and so only congress can put that teeth back in, which is why one of the key tenets of the john roberts voting rights advancement act is to get back preclearance. and instead of looking, you know, to 1960 and 1970, we're looking at 20, 25 years forward, and there's still a multitude of states that have a history of voter discrimination. so we're not talking about every state. as byron said in his oration at the foot of the bridge, which, frankly, was very disrespectful to the legacy that is the civil rights and voting rights legacy. but, you know, every democrat signed on to the john lewis

voting rights advancement act. and frankly, we're not going to sit back and let this go unanswered. we will continue to fight it. this is the sixth time that i've introduced it since, since the shelby versus holder decision, and we had unanimous support from house democrats. all house democrats signed on as original co-sponsors. it saddens me that we can't get republicans to help us. but you know what, rev? they see this as a voting strategy by voter suppressing suppressing the vote. they actually are winning elections. so as long as they're winning elections by suppressing the vote, they're going to continue to do it. and as you said, about what's going on with the budget, there's no way that this administration can give a $2.5 trillion cut tax cut to the wealthy and the well-off without cutting medicaid, without cutting snap benefits. >> it can't happen. >> cannot happen. right? absolutely. and the budget that they passed was a blueprint. and in it, they told the energy and commerce committee that it had to cut $880 billion. right.

well, what is the 90 what what comprises 95% of the energy and commerce budget? medicaid. it's a clear cut for medicaid. so we've got to stop this administration from saying that somehow what they're doing is about efficiency. none of us want inefficient government. we know that there is some waste and some fraud. but the way to do this is not to just bring a slash hammer, but rather a precision cuts. we did it under the clinton administration. they actually did cut, you know, some of the some of the programs that were inefficient, but they did. so after six months of steady, proper review and targeted cuts. not this. >> did not affect that. did not that that needed. >> that, it needed the most. >> congressman jackson, i've known you since you were a kid. we used to my family used to spend christmas at your house. so i know you are the mathematician and the numbers guy, the family. when someone would come up that i didn't know the answer, i'd tell my

daughters, go ask. uncle jonathan. so explain how this budget is really tilted toward the wealthy because they cover with rhetoric like this is across the board, but the ultimate end of this is going to hurt the people that has the least that they can give in terms of cutting. well, when we talk. >> about, just say for rounding numbers, $1 trillion in tax cuts. and since you want to deal with numbers, which i'm very comfortable with, you are $1 trillion is 1,000,000 million. and then i was asking myself, how do i explain that to someone? well, then 1,000,000 seconds is 11 days, almost 11.7 days and 1,000,000,000 seconds, if you will, is 31 years. >> wow. >> so the magnitude that we're talking about is substantial and 1,000,000,000,000 seconds is 31,000 years. so the amount of cash that they're trying to target to give to the wealthiest people already. and you can look

at the 2017 tax plan. it benefited the top 1%. so when we talk about growing inequality, that's not because rich people are working harder. it's because the tax policy has been stacked to skew in their favor. people are working harder, but they're not receiving the benefits. and so people need to understand this is beyond their imagination. it's just so big. people found it astounding. just take a breath, look at it and like, understand what a billion is or a million and a trillion. and this policy is a rehash. it's an extension. he's calling it. he wants to do part two of what he already has done. he is going to do this with all the oligarchs that were on the stage when i went to the swearing in at the capitol on january 20th, and i saw mr. rupert murdoch, i saw jeff bezos, i saw the zuckerberg, i saw elon musk, i saw tiktok, i saw all these people, these people are controlling the airwaves around the world. and this is where all these funds are going, and

they're unaccountable. and so, no, we have to fight back on this here. and when you start taking people's snap benefits, which is going to affect 41 million people on average, $2 a meal, that's simply wrong. when you talk about giving money to the rich and taking it from the poor, that's a bad theology. okay? like, what are you doing when you start talking about people's housing? you're talking about people's food. it's talking about people's health care. what are they really what are they reading? you know, and they have the nerve, the audacity, the unmitigated gall to have prayer. well, no. my father, reverend jackson, always told me, you pray for the food you're about to receive, not for the food that's left on the table. and now, with this erratic pattern that mr. trump is doing on these, on these trade and tariffs, 30% of our lumber comes from canada. so overnight $5,000 is going to be tagged on to everyone's housing as a as a course of going into mexico, cars go back and forth across the us border in mexico 5 to 6 times. when you do 25% tariffs, that doesn't work. so he had to back off of that within one day. it's wrong.

>> less than one day. and you know that the tax cuts to the wealthy never trickle down to the people we represent. this trickle down theory. we know that what he's doing is giving the rich, making them more wealthy. they're not necessarily going to create more jobs. they're definitely going to have more money in their pocket and invest more money. and it's just simply unfair. it's actually goes against the very fundament of our society. what ever happened to a safety net that gave an opportunity for all americans? i think that we need to push back. we need to push back, push back hard, and we need the american people to stand up and speak out. you know, i want to invoke john lewis here, john, on the very last time he was on that bridge and you were there, it was in march of 2020. and he was a very weak john lewis. he was riddled with cancer. but when his voice sprang out, it just if we close our eyes, we can remember what he said. he said, never give up, never give in. keep our eyes on the prize and keep the faith.

and that is what we all must continue to do. we must practice what we preach, and that is remembering that to the least of these, if we do unto the least of these, we do unto god. >> and that's why we're here today. we kept the faith, and we're going to keep the faith. thank you to representatives terri sewell and congressman jonathan jackson for being with us on this historic day. coming up, tensions are growing within maga world. can elon musk, steve bannon and marco rubio all coexist to serve and protect their fearless leader? my their fearless leader? my my mental health was better. but uncontrollable movements called td,tardive dyskinesia, started disrupting my day. td felt embarrassing. i felt like disconnecting. i asked my doctor about treating my td, and learned about ingrezza. ♪ ingrezza ♪ ingrezza is clinically proven to treat td, quickly reducing td by greater than five times at two weeks. number-one prescribed ingrezza

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congressman hakeem jeffries and brendan buck, former press secretary to former house speaker john boehner and paul ryan. he's also an msnbc analyst. brendan, following reports of a contentious cabinet meeting, the new york times is now reporting that president trump has made it clear he wants to keep both steve bannon and elon musk, along with their allies within the maga movement. at the same time, the white house is saying that president trump, secretary of state marco rubio and elon musk had dinner together last night at mar-a-lago. can all sides coexist? i mean, do you see them all getting along? >> yeah. i think this musk bannon dispute is an underappreciated. >> fracture in. >> the current gop. >> look steve bannon. >> has been. >> a.

>> foot soldier for. >> donald trump. >> he went. >> to. >> jail for donald. >> trump for. >> a really long time. >> and i think he is. >> understandably, deeply skeptical of elon musk, who, you know, was not even really a close. ally of donald trump the. >> first time around and sort. >> of. >> came out. >> of nowhere and. >> has really stolen. >> the spotlight. >> let's remember. steve bannon. was a close advisor in the white house. >> the first. >> time around. >> and i think he has real questions about. >> what elon musk is. >> up to. >> we know that that. >> trumpism is sort of anti-immigrant nationalist. >> and it's not clear. >> that elon musk. >> shares any of those views. now, donald trump needs both of those people. i think he likes. >> what elon musk is doing. >> but if steve bannon. >> keeps railing against him. >> i think that there's. >> a real fracture. >> that that could happen here. because. >> look. >> steve bannon has been through this. he has the real, you know, credibility with the maga movement. so unless these. two get on the same page, i expect trump's going to have to keep intervening.

>> michael, we've seen democrats responding to trump 2.0 in many different ways. some are seeking compromise with the white house, such as governors gretchen whitmer and jared polis, while others, like senator chris murphy, are vocally resisting the administration. then there's senators schumer and slotkin, who have a more pragmatic approach. what seems to be the most successful way so far in your judgment? >> well, the reality. >> is that the democratic party. >> is not a monolith. >> and so the smart way forward here would be. for a certain. >> group. >> of people, the alcs, the. >> al greens, those sorts of. people to fight every single. day and really speak to the populism of. >> our. >> party and the things we stand for. but we should also, as a. >> party. >> work with the white house on passing legislation if it improves the lives of the american public. i do think it's possible for us to do both. i disagree with the notion that we

should just allow donald trump to conduct himself in whatever way he sees fit, and i disagree with the notion that we should treat him as if he were george w bush or george h.w. bush or any other republican president that we just disagree with on a policy perspective, but wasn't trying to tear down this country. i think donald trump has to be someone that we address in a different way. >> brendan, we've seen so much back and forth with this administration in the first few weeks on tariffs, on immigration policies, doge gaza foreign policies. and now republicans introduced a new funding bill in an attempt to prevent a government shutdown. but what are the specifics to the new funding bill? and will trump be for it before the bill or against the bill? >> well, trump's. >> leaning. >> in for it. so we've got a government. >> shutdown deadline just in a. >> matter of days.

>> and republicans have no interest in doing any type. >> of what. >> we. >> call an omnibus spending bill, where you go. >> line by line. >> and fund the government. that's too sticky of a situation. >> so they just want to do what we. >> call a continuing resolution. keep funding. >> as it is. >> except instead. >> of just doing sort of. >> a traditional continuing resolution, which basically. >> just says. >> we're going to. >> change the. >> date of what we're spending. >> money on. >> they've included a bunch of. stuff that are. sweeteners for conservatives. >> they've cut non-defense. >> spending, they've increased defense spending. >> they've. put money. >> in for immigration. >> and the reason they're doing that is. >> they don't expect any democrats to help mike johnson in the house keep the government open. >> so we have. >> a one. >> vote margin. >> in the house. >> mike johnson can't lose more than one vote. so you're going to have. >> a real test. i think it's sort. >> of a cliche to say this is a big test, but this is a big test for mike johnson to see if he can get his. >> entire party, every. >> single member to vote to keep the government open, no. democrat help coming in to save

them. and he's going to need donald trump to do that. because the last thing i think donald trump wants right now is a government shutdown that's going to distract from the things that he wants to be talking about. so keep a close eye on. >> this early this week. >> i want to ask you both, starting with michael, as we're here in selma, to remember those who fought for voting rights while the new trump administration is fighting against it. the doj withdrew their claims from a few voting rights cases after trump was inaugurated into office. michael, what are your thoughts on what this day represents as voting rights are still currently under attack? >> this is a good reminder that now more than ever, it's got to be an all hands on deck effort where the groups and the activists and the voters and the electeds all work together to protect voting rights, which are under assault by donald trump and his cronies. and i think that is something that won't change over the years. and so as we think about today and we think about john lewis and we

think about the voting rights act, now more than ever, we have to be unified in fighting to protect those rights and really strengthening them to make sure that the foundation of our country, which is one man, one vote, is protected. >> brandon, your thoughts? >> yeah. look, i'm. >> a person who's involved in. >> politics because i think it you want every single person to participate. and it really bothers me when you see. any tactic from any. >> party that. >> says, you know, we're going to try to discourage certain. people to vote. >> or. >> anything like that. now, i do want to say, though, you know, as somebody from georgia, i found. >> some of the rhetoric. >> around the georgia voting law outrageous. the former president saying that it was like jim crow. so it doesn't surprise me that they're backing out of lawsuits against the georgia voting act, because i think the georgia law has proven itself to be fine. we've had record voting in georgia, but again, i hope that we can come to a place where we're honest about all sides of this, and we encourage as many people to participate as

possible. >> you know, i think that there's been record voting, but they have had been because of a lot of strenuous efforts by people to go out and vote, despite some of the barriers. but as one who campaigned around this country, i and others saying that ex-felons should be able to give a right to vote, someone said today at the services, ex-felons can't vote, but a person guilty of 34 felonies can be president. something about that doesn't sound right. michael hardaway and brendan buck, thank you both for being with us. coming up, a little coffee shop here in selma plays a big role in the civil rights movement. now, 60 years later, the owners are still doing their part to bring power doing their part to bring power to the people. we'll show you experience advanced technology in the buick envision. ♪♪ equipped with the largest-in-class ultrawide 30-inch diagonal display

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>> welcome back to the national voting rights museum and institute in selma, alabama. this city remains a civil rights hub to this day, and many of the people here remember bloody sunday or know someone who does. many community hubs also serve as a reminder for what happened that day, including a little coffee shop and the big role it played that day. nbc's priscilla thompson explains. >> every day, customers stroll in and out of this orange building. >> good morning. >> picking up. >> coffee. >> often unaware of. >> what the building. >> once was. >> do you know. >> what that. >> used to be? >> no. >> i'm not familiar with that. >> this is. >> actually the. >> window from. >> which. >> blacks had to be served. when this. restaurant was a. >> segregated diner. >> this is. >> the. >> coffee shop. in downtown

selma. >> but decades ago, it was the thirsty boy diner where a hamburger and drink. would cost you $0.24. and black people were served. out back. what do you remember of the. >> thirsty boy? >> as a child. >> we would. >> come. >> by for the infamous ham. >> sandwich, and i can remember we didn't come in the front door. we walked to this window. >> the segregated. >> diner was the site of sit ins and focus of freedom. >> songs. >> and just steps from the edmund pettus bridge, where on that. fateful sunday 60 years ago, unarmed demonstrators marching for voting rights were attacked. >> by police. armed with batons, dogs. >> and tear gas. but the arc of the moral. universe bent toward justice with the voting rights act signed into law later that year. in august of 1965, and here in selma, jackie now runs her coffee shop out of that once segregated diner. with that divisive window now filled with accolades from around the world. >> there's community, there's

unity, there's love. >> there's light, and there's. >> a successful black woman that's operating in a space that 60 years ago did not stand for those. >> same things. and now this is a place for everybody. >> this is a. >> place for everybody. >> priscilla thompson, nbc news, selma, alabama. >> thank you to nbc's priscilla thompson for this reporting. up next, my final thoughts on this next, my final thoughts on this historic day. stay with us. prilosec knows, for a fire... one fire extinguisher beats 10 buckets of water, and for zero heartburn 1 prilosec a day... beats taking up to 10 antacids a day. it's that simple, for 24 hour heartburn relief... one beats ten. prilosec otc. buffet of all you

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to selma, see the national voting rights museum and institute. they have displays of people that fought, that gave their lives. even they have a projection of the jail cells. people were put in here at this museum. and then remember those that fought the fight. i thought about that as i marched across that bridge today with one of my mentors, jesse jackson, who is now wheelchair bound but wanted to be here to remember this day and to stand up for the continued voting rights of all americans. and let us remember that there was the cultural part of it the music, the artists that stood and put their artistry on the line to support the cause. that's why i'm headed home tomorrow. where tomorrow we will. funeralize roberta flack, one of those singers that would sing freedom songs along with her artistry. she will be funeralized at the abyssinian baptist church tomorrow, where reverend kevin johnson pastors

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