Here's a roundup piece about Jews and the movie "Selma," with emphasis on the role of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and was conspicuous by his absence in the film. The piece includes a link to a newsfeature I wrote this summer about the progressive Southern Moral Monday Movement founded in North Carolina by Rev. William Barber.
With tape covering his mouth, the Rev. William Barber II leads protesters down stairs from the rotunda in the Legislative Building as the first Moral Monday protest of the 2014 Short Session of the General Assembly Monday, May 19, 2014. CHUCK LIDDY — cliddy@newsobserver.com
The NC group is multicultural, multiethnic, multireligous. One of the newer state groups, Alabama's, did not include Jewish organizations when I talked to the founder in August.
*to the tune of "Send in the Clowns"
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