Selma was an amazing, powerful uplifting movie!

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2015)

This was an amazing depiction of a moment in the life of Dr. King. I loved seeing this side of him because we like to make our great leaders like Jesus, Ghandi, and Martin L. King martyrs. This depiction made him human with human flaws.If anyone wants to see how Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson got their activism style from,this movie will show it was from Dr. King.He met at the White House with President Johnson, you had J.B. Hoover threatened to take him out, the government wiretapping his phones, and Governor George Wallace doing whatever he could to stop him.He also knew how to used the media to his advantage and understood his mortality and his importance.The millenials, especially black youth need to see this movie so they can understand the importance of why it is importance to vote. What our ancestors went through to get the right to vote and how it was all political and about legacies. How he used the media to show the world what Black Americans went through for the simple right to vote. It is haunting how the images of 1965 are parallel to the bruality of the streets of Ferguson. How the boys killed in nonviolent marches reflects the unarmed black men getting murdered today by the cops today. I wasn't going to watch this movie thinking it was another The Help or Precious, but I was so wrong. It is very uplifting towards the African American community and is in the league of Spike Lee's Malcolm X, 12 Years A Slave, and now Selma. And the music took it to another level especially the ending song Glory performed by Common and John Legend and how Common tied the events of Fergurson today into the events of Selma. Anyway, I loved the movie. I recommend everyone to go watch it. It is a perfect example of how powerful we are when come together as one race regardless of our differences and skin color.