All tagged Selma
“When It comes from the inside, you are free and don't have to worry about making it look pretty for someone else," Charlie Lucas says. "I polish myself every day and can walk out in the world and be honest with myself. I don't have to worry about anything in the back or the front of me. I am living this day. Tomorrow is icing on the cake.”
Stopping at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma on a road trip through Alabama with my best friend, Kendall, we picked up the pieces of a broken bottle from the brick walkway in front of the church. The clear, big pieces along the steps were easy to get, but the bottle had shattered into a piercing powder close to the monument of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and those who gave their lives to "overcome injustice and secure the right to vote."
