BET Wire: Selma Marchers to Receive Congressional Gold Medal
Congress honors voting rights activists.
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In Case You Missed It - Washington, D.C., residents can sorta, kinda smoke marijuana at home; Congress honors Selma marchers; Loretta Lynch may soon become attorney general, and more. —Joyce Jones (@BETpolitichick) (Photo: BET)
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An Award Long Overdue - The U.S. Senate on Feb. 27 approved legislation to present a Congressional Gold Medal to the protesters who marched from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights. The House has passed an identical bill and the measure will soon go to President Obama. "As we confront the myriad of challenges our country continues to face, we do so with the knowledge that we drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty that we did not ourselves dig," said Sen. Cory Booker, who co-sponsored the bill with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama). "This award is a small token of our collective national gratitude to the courageous men and women who sacrificed so much to move our country forward." (Photo: William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)
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Apples and Oranges - In remarks delivered at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said that dealing with his state's union members has prepared him to deal with ISIS. “We need a leader with that kind of confidence. If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world," he said. The potential 2016 presidential candidate later told Bloomberg Politics that he hadn't intended to compare union workers to the terrorist group. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Reefer Madness - Defying Congress, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser implemented a voter-approved initiative on Feb. 26 that allows people to legally grow and share marijuana in private. "If they are under any illusion that this would be legal, they are wrong. And there are very severe consequences for violating this provision. You can go to prison for this. We’re not playing a little game here," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told the Washington Post.(Photo: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Guess Who's Going to Selma? - Former President George W. Bush and wife Laura will join Obama in Selma on March 7 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the voting rights marches. Obama's daughters also will participate in the event, which the president said at a White House Black History Month reception will pay tribute to “countless American heroes whose names aren’t in the history books, that aren’t etched on marble somewhere — ordinary men and women.” Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
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