{"id":182132,"date":"2026-03-07T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182132\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:08:09","slug":"mar-7-aarlcc-commemorates-61st-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-in-selma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182132\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar 7 | AARLCC Commemorates 61st Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AARLCC Commemorates 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday<\/p>\n<p>To mark the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) will present two dynamic programs celebrating civil rights history and African American cultural traditions.This program, part of CommUniversity&#8217;s Black History Saturday School, features Dr. Regis M. Fox discussing African American vernacular traditions as vital expressions of creativity, resistance, and survival.<br \/>Time: 11:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.<br \/>Free <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelma Is Now\u201d Exhibition (on view through June 27, 2026)<br \/>The exhibition revisits March 7, 1965, when marchers were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Restored photographs by James &#8216;Spider&#8217; Martin capture the day&#8217;s brutality and resilience, offering context for ongoing voting rights challenges.A Gallery Walk at 2:00 p.m. will feature AARLCC Regional Manager Doug McCraw, historian Tameka Bradley Hobbs, and Senior Archivist Erin Purdy.<br \/>Registration: Free <\/p>\n<p>When: Saturday, March 7, 2026<br \/>Where: African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AARLCC Commemorates 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday To mark the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the African-American Research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-182132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}