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The Bridge Crossing Jubilee does not come in February, which is Black History Month. However, the Bridge Crossing Jubilee is Black History.

10:41 pm UTC May. 20, 2021 Illustration by Mara Corbett; Gannett archives He lay on the pavement with a bullet wound in his stomach, engulfed in chaos and darkness. It was 1965. A year soon scarred by social and political upheaval: The assassination of Malcolm X. Bloody Sunday. The Vietnam War. The Watts Riots.  Jimmie Lee Jackson would see none of it. The 26-year-old showed up the night of Feb. 18 in Marion, Alabama, where hundreds of people had gathered to march in protest of the arrest of a local civil rights activist. When police and state troopers intervened to break up the march, th...

12:45 pm UTC May. 20, 2021 Illustration by Mara Corbett; Gannett archives He laY on the pavement with a bullet wound in his stomach, engulfed in chaos and darkness. It was 1965. A year soon scarred by social and political upheaval: The assassination of Malcolm X. Bloody Sunday. The Vietnam War. The Watts Riots.  Jimmie Lee Jackson would see none of it. The 26-year-old showed up the night of Feb. 18 in Marion, Alabama, where hundreds of people had gathered to march in protest of the arrest of a local civil rights activist. When police and state troopers intervened to break up the march, the...