Education: January is going to be an exciting educational month. Your kids will be able to see something educational about Black history on OWN every week during the month of January!!! What makes Selma such a great thing is that many of todays generation dont know the sacrifices that were made. Oprah is also having a Legends Ball honoring Ambassador Andrew Young, Berry Gordy, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Diane Nash, Dick Gregory, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Congressman John Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Juanita Jones Abernathy, Julian Bond, Marian Wright Edelman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Harry Belafonte. The movie “Selma,” produced by Paramount Pictures, Pathé and Harpo Films, opens nationwide January 9, 2015 and chronicles the 1965 Selma to Montgomery protest marches in Alabama led by a group of brave men and women in the fight for equal voting rights. Oprah Winfrey is a producer of the film and portrays civil rights activist Annie Lee Cooper. Honoring the 50th anniversary in 2015, these marches ultimately led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a landmark achievement of the Civil Rights Movement that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. 353online/selma-official-trailer/
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