First Full Day of Jubilee Centers on Education & Youth – Alabama News

From West Alabama Newsroom–

The annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee is now in full swing in Selma.

And the first full day of the event featured a full slate of events.

Friday featured nearly a dozen different activities — with most centered around education — and youth.

Selma High School hosted the annual Children’s Sojourn. And students at Tipton-Durant Middle School competed in the Voting Rights Bowl.

Both events taught area youth about the historic events that happened in the city they live in. And the impact those events had on the world.

“People like marched. They risked their lives for us to vote,” said Tipton 6th Grader Adrianna Bennett.

“It made me feel like, like history is in my city. And it’s full of things for you to learn.”

“Our youth are not just our future, they are our present. They are right here. And that’s why it’s important to teach them this history,” said Jubilee Co-Founder Faya Rose Toure.

An Education Summit was held at Wallace…