Not Live Blogging

The Faith and Politics Institute hosts, along with a local legend you all are aware of, a Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Selma, AL. This year, the Civil Rights Pilgrimage had a special significance with the election of President Obama, the appointment of Attorney General Eric Holder (who I got to meet), and well the Presidential election was pretty big.

Anyway, a group of students gathers at 6am to board a charter bus headed for Selma. We detour a little in Montgomery, to see the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and Southern Poverty Law Center. When we get to Selma, we immediately walk to the Brown Chapel AME Church for a service commemmorating the Bloody Sunday event in 1965. 

The students got to meet Eric Holder and Al Sharpton, and visit with Congressman Lewis. Then we marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge...  here's me on the bridge: 

post scriptum: with all the instant-update potential of the web, I sometimes fear that posting something that happened in the past (its been a month since the selma trip) will be frowned upon. But Twitter is for instant updates and this for more in depth-y posts. Speaking of which, if you didn't see the new box on the right-hand side, check me out on twitter.