It's time to teach our children how to survie on the cusp of a racial cliff in 2015
buzzz worthy. . . My 15-year-old and a friend saw "Selma" together. When they returne from the moviee I asked, "What was the main take away from the film?" It was emotionally draining for her: "They went through so much for us. I cried because I knew it was real," she said of the impact of the cinematic portrayal of one of the darkest hours in American History. Overall, the triumph over injustice resonated the most. "At the end," she said, "it was beautiful." Indeed, the "beauty" of any struggle is progress. I wanted to embrace her and talk of the coming of better days, but dcided to have "the talk." The struggle for equality and justice remains real today, voting rights are still under attack 50 years after the voting rights act they were fighting to establish in the movie was written into lae.as in 2015 the 50th Anniversary f the Voting Rights act. What little African American history tha...