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Selma
[ sel-muh ]
noun
- a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- a town in central California.
- a female given name.
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Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the Civil Rights drama Selma.
Having finally seen Selma on November 17, I must report, sadly, that I do not share the enthusiasm the film has generated so far.
Because I was living with this story, I watched closely as Hollywood considered making a film about Selma.
In 2009, Lee Daniels announced that he would direct Selma and that Liam Neeson would play President Lyndon Johnson.
Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.
But they had rested in the narrow house: their voice had ceased in Selma!
How are ye changed, my friends, since the days of Selma's feast!
She is like a sister to me, and to oblige me, would no doubt take Selma.
Life in Selma became worth living even as the chance of living it augmented.
Really the mortality among the unacclimated in the Selma district at that time was excessive.
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