67. Bloody Sunday, 60 Years Later

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Host Kimberlé Crenshaw takes listeners to Alabama to learn about the contemporary importance of Bloody Sunday and the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Featuring: Cliff Albright, co-founder, Black Voters Matter LaTosha Brown, co-founder, Black Voters Matter Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) 1965 foot soldiers Denise Jaringan-Holt and Alice Moore Click here to listen an uncut conversation about the Selma Jubilee with Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Laura Flanders and Friends podcast. Podcast co-written and produced by Sr. Producer Nicole Edwards Mixing and sound design by Sean Dunnam Podcast art by Ashley Julien Music by Blue Dot Sessions Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters (Twitter), @IMKC_podcast (Instagram + Bluesky)

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0:00.0	Hey podcast listeners. The episode you're about to hear is about the 60th Jubilee of Bloody Sunday
0:06.4	and why the lessons from that historic moment are just as relevant today as they were six decades ago.
0:12.8	If you like what you hear, go check out the Laura Flanders and Friends show.
0:17.1	Laura and her team were also in Selma last month and they just dropped their episode about the Jubilee.
0:22.4	It includes a powerful conversation with our show's host, Kimberly Crenshaw.
0:26.8	Listen on your favorite podcast app after this.
0:31.9	To be honest with you, this is actually the first time I've crossed that bridge since Bloody Sunday, since 1965,
0:40.3	or since we walked all the way to Montgomery.
0:45.3	It was a bittersweet moment, I mean, you know, for me to have the courage now to walk back across that bridge again,
0:52.3	because, like I said, never walked across that bridge since.
0:57.0	I didn't even talk about Bloody Sunday until about four years ago.
1:02.0	So it's something that was embedded and never came out because you know back when we did all of that we didn't have counselor.
1:10.0	It was very traumatic what we got with the tear gas and all of that.
1:15.1	Very traumatic.
1:16.4	We didn't even talk about it at home after it happened.
1:20.3	That's Denise Jarnigan Holt.
1:22.5	On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Denise and her sister Alice Thomas Moore were young foot soldiers in Selma, Alabama.
1:32.3	They walked to the Edmund Pettus Bridge with hundreds of others as part of a peaceful protest for the right to vote.
1:38.9	They were met with brutal violence that's still hard for them to talk about even today 60 years later.
1:47.0	Very emotional today, but right at the end of that bridge got full blast of tear gas on that day,
1:56.0	where we all ran for cover. Me and my sister together. I don't think many people realize what we went through.
2:05.7	I'll start crown again.
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