Biden honors Bloody Sunday, voting rights anniversary in Selma

President Joe Biden on Sunday told a crowd in storm-battered Selma that the march for voting rights continues today, 58 years after the events of Bloody Sunday jolted the nation into securing the Black right to vote and providing equal access for all.

Biden was also to lead a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, walking the same path that the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis did on March 7, 1965, and that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. continued two weeks later. 

“No matter how hard some people try, we can’t just choose what we want to know and not what we should know,” Biden said. “Everyone should learn the truth about Selma.

“Selma was a reckoning,” Biden said. “The right to vote, to have your vote counted, is the threshold of democracy.” 

The president said voting rights are inextricably intertwined with economic justice and civil rights for Black Americans, saying he and Vice President Kamala Harris have been committed to protecting the right to vote in free and fair…