You’re probably not human.
“What happens when a man stands up and says ‘enough is enough’?” David Oyelowo, whose role in the trailer as Martin Luther King, Jr. should be enough to nominate him for an Academy Award, leads the cast of this film about the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.
If this blog exists for any meaningful reason, it is to highlight the issues that live at the intersection of religion and popular culture.
I cannot imagine a better candidate for three minutes of your time today, or a couple of hours in January, when the film is released. Especially in light of the recently-leaked Hoover-era FBI letter to MLK urging him to kill himself, I think every American with a spare twelve dollars should be out to see this movie, to see the ugliness our country perpetuated in very recent history and to join together in hope that we can keep moving in a better direction.