Martin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast held as drive-in event By Courtney Chandler | March 7, 2021 at 5:45 PM CST - Updated March 7 at 5:45 PM
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - It may have been different this year, but the purpose did not change.
“Unity, Now More Than Ever” was the theme for this year’s Martin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast.
For safety purposes, the breakfast was turned into a drive-in event with some featured speakers like Senator Raphael Warnock and President Joe Biden speaking virtually.
Other speakers said it was important for them to be in Selma despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to honor and remember the civil rights icons who risk their lives who for a better today.
Updated: Mar 7 2021, 18:58 ET
A pair of B-52 flew over the Middle East in threat to Iran as Biden could lose military executive power amid escalating tension.
The flight by the two heavy bombers on Sunday aimed as a warning to Iran amid tensions between Washington and Tehran.
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Lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation to limit Biden s presidential war powersCredit: AP:Associated Press
Meanwhile, lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation to limit Biden s presidential war powers after some frustration over the airstrike in Syria on February 25 that was directed at militant forces backed by Iran that had attacked Americans in Iraq.
According to the U.S. military s Central Command the two B-52s were accompanied by military aircraft from nations including Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on Sunday directing government agencies to expand voting access to make it easier for Americans to vote.
This is part of his administration s efforts to promote and defend the right to vote for all eligible Americans who are legally entitled to participate in the voting process.
The order noted that aside from the federal government s responsibility to expand access, it is also their responsibility to educate voters on registration and expand election information to combat misinformation and for all Americans to participate in our democracy, NBC News reported.
Pres. Biden announced the said order in a virtual speech played before Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast. This marks the 56th anniversary of 1965 Bloody Sunday crossing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where Black demonstrators fought for access to the ballot box but were beaten by police along their march.