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LIVE ON THE GROUND IN SELMA + MONTGOMERY, AL

Sunday, June 7, 2026

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The Institute for Common Power

We have entered waters that are horribly familiar in the United States. The assault on the voting rights of African Americans and other People of Color never stops. From Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy to racial segregation and terror lynching to George Wallace and Massive Resistance against civil rights to Donald Trump and MAGA, it’s all part of the same through line. The Supreme Court's recent Callais decision gutting the Voting Rights Act is horrible. But in knowing our history, and with resolve and strategy today, we march forward.

As democracy footsoldiers have done forever, we are not going to let anyone turn us around in our fight for what should be the most Common Power for All Citizens in American Democracy: The Right to Vote.

Join us for four hours of learning, inspiration, and determination with heroes past, present, and forward, live from sacred sites that drove us to the most important small-d democratic piece of legislation in American history: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now we march.

Teach-In Leaders:

Dr. Terry Anne Scott

Director, The Institute for Common Power

Dr. Terry Anne Scott is an award-winning historian, author, and speaker. She is the Director of the Institute for Common Power, an educational 501(c)3 branch of Common Power that catalyzes people to action through experiential learning opportunities such as workshops, lectures, courses, learning tours, national educational events. Dr. Scott is a former Professor of African American History and Chair of the Department of History at Hood College. She has also taught at the University of Washington and the University of Maryland. Dr. Scott is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sports History and a member of the Editorial Staff for the Journal of American History. She is the author of several books, including Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas (winner of the 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment Best Book Award) and the forthcoming From Bed-Stuy to the Hall of Fame: The Unexpected Life of Lenny Wilkens. She is also the editor of Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City. Dr. Scott appears in several critically-acclaimed documentaries, including “Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day,” which won a 2022 NAACP Image Award and was short-listed for an Academy Award. She is also featured in the Emmy-nominated documentary “Sound of the Police.”

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Mr. Charles Mauldin

Mr. Mauldin was 6th in line on Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 7 1967, in his leadership role as Head of the Dallas County Youth League. The five men in front of him have passed away. Mr. Mauldin is an American hero, and he speaks with groups all over the world about the Voting Rights Campaign in Selma. He is a Champion of Common Power, the nation's premier Organizing Force for recruiting, educating, and mobilizing next-generation leaders and everyday volunteers to fight for the right to vote and to win elections.

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Dr. Yohuru Williams

Dr. Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Williams received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998.

Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006), Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement (Routledge, 2015), and Teaching beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies (Corwin Press, 2008) and the editor of A Constant Struggle: African American History from 1865 to the Present Documents and Essays (Kendall Hunt, 2002). He is the co-editor of The Black Panthers: Portraits of an Unfinished Revolution (Nation Books, 2016), In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications, The Color Line Revisited (Tapestry Press, 2002) and The Souls of Black Folks: Centennial Reflections (Africa World Press, 2003). Dr. Williams served as an advisor on the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching.

Dr. Williams has appeared on a variety of local and national radio and television programs most notably ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Aljazeera America, BET, CSPAN, Fox Business News, Huff Post Live, and NPR and was featured in the Ken Burns PBS Documentary Jackie Robinson (2016), the Stanley Nelson PBS Documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015), and the Judd Ehrlich film The Price of Freedom (2021). He was also one of the hosts of the History Channel’s Web Series, Sound Smart and was a featured commentator on History’s popular series, “The Titans that Built America” (2021) and “The Food That Built America” (2019).

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Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Professor, The Ohio State University

Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries teaches, researches, and writes about the African American experience from a historical perspective.

He has chronicled the civil rights movement in the ten-episode Audible Originals series “Great Figures of the Civil Rights Movement,” and has told the remarkable story of the original Black Panther Party in Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, which has been praised as “the book historians of the black freedom movement have been waiting for.”

Dr. Jeffries has collaborated on several public history projects, including serving as the lead scholar and primary scriptwriter for the $27 million renovation and redesign of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, the site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Jeffries regularly shares his expertise on African American history and contemporary Black politics through public lectures, op-eds, and interviews with print, radio, and television news outlets, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, CNN, and MSNBC.

Dr. Jeffries graduated from Morehouse College in 1994 with a BA in history, and earned his PhD in American history with a specialization in African American history from Duke University in 2002.

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Dr. David Domke

David Domke worked as a journalist for several newspapers in the 1980s and early 1990s before earning a PhD in 1996. He served as a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington until retirement in 2021. His research focused on communication, politics, and public opinion in the United States. In 2002 he received the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2006, he was named the Washington state Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is a co-author of The God Strategy: How Religion Became A Political Weapon in America, and he teaches on voting rights in America to groups across the nation.