Selma participates in ‘No Kings’ rally
Published 10:23 pm Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Protesters attend the "No Kings" rally. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
Protesters attend the "No Kings" rally. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
Protesters attend the "No Kings" rally. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
A demonstrator at the “No Kings” rally wears a “Respect My Constitution sign. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
Protesters attend the "No Kings" rally. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
Protesters attend the "No Kings" rally. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
Protesters attend the "No Kings" rally. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
A speaker addresses the crowd at the "No Kings" rally. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
Faya Rosa Toure sings a song during the “No Kings” rally at the Songs of Selma Park. | Mike Cadicamo, Special to The Selma Times Journal
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Selma was one of the 2,100 sites that held a rally on Saturday with the theme “No Kings.”
Retired Sen. Hank Sanders said he was pleased with the group that showed up at the Songs of Selma Park at the food of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He estimated the crowd to be about five or six dozen participants.
He said they were fighting a late start organizing the event and also the weather conditions. The rally, which was planned to be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. was cut short due to rain.
However, Sanders said they were proud to participate in the movement.
“We received a good message, but we also sent a message that we will fight for democracy,” Sanders said. “Our democracy is still one of the greatest democracies to have ever existed. It has lasted for nearly 250 years, and we cannot allow our democracy to be undermined by those who wish to destroy it.”
Selma’s march was held on the grounds of one of the historic marches in the Civil Rights Movement, in which the events of Bloody Sunday over 60 years ago let to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed in August of that year.
“Selma is such a symbolic place in the history of this country,” Sanders said. “To be a part of 2,100 marches across the country, it means a lot for us to be standing alongside the other participants around the country at the same time to stand up for democracy.”
