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How Churches Mobilized To Rescue Selma After A Tornado Devastated The Historic City

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Warren William “Billy” Young was just 2 years old when a violent tornado tore through his family’s home church, the historic First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, causing devastating damage.

It was 7 a.m. on Monday, May 1, 1978, when the tornado barreled through the sanctuary, destroying its massive brick walls, ripping out its stained-glass windows, and decapitating the towering church spire, the tallest in the city at the time.

One of only a few structures hit, the church looked destroyed. But not to the dedicated First Baptist family of faith. Young’s parents — his father Woodrow, a deacon and trustee, his mother Alice, president of the mission society — and other members rallied together to rebuild the city’s oldest black Baptist church.

They were determined to restore the renowned Gothic Revival to the beauty designed by African American architect David West Benjamin in 1894. Members gathered up bricks the tornado pitched all over the city, signed pledges, took out loans, and slowly put the church back together, using a member’s wedding photograph to reassemble the sanctuary.

Throughout the long recovery, they met in borrowed sanctuaries and never missed a Sunday. “My father often said the tornado could not stop God’s work,” Young said.

A Nightmare Repeated

That strong faith and determination honed in his family church helped to drive Young’s vigorous relief efforts following the tornado on Jan. 12 that destroyed one-third of Selma, his beloved hometown. The high-powered tornado, with winds up to 157 miles per hour, cut

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SCOTUS Threats Suggest Democrats’ Attacks On The Court Encourage Politically Motivated Terrorism

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A 76-year-old Alaskan man is in custody after he allegedly threatened to assault, kidnap, lynch, torture, murder, and assassinate six of the nine Supreme Court justices. The names of the justices targeted, however, were withheld by the Department of Justice — likely because they confirm Democrats’ incendiary rhetoric against the conservative members of the court is working.

The DOJ announced on Thursday that Panos Anastasiou faces nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce after he sent more than 465 messages pledging harm against justices via “a public website the court maintained.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged in the Thursday press release that the communications were rooted in Anastasiou’s desire to “retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with.” Yet, neither he nor the Department of Justice memo announcing the arrest identified exactly which of the nine SCOTUS members and their family members were terrorized.

In fact, the DOJ went out of its way in its 11-page September 18 indictment of Anastasiou to disguise which high bench presiders were in danger for upholding their constitutional duties by reducing the justices to numbers “1-6.” Six of the nine sitting SCOTUS justices were nominated to the high bench by Republican presidents.

The document accusing the Alaskan of several felonies, however, shows Anastasiou’s threats were well timed not only with a Democrat-manufactured ethics scandal, but also decisions secured specifically by the court’s conservative majority.

In May, as corporate media ramped up Democrat-manufactured

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NFL Get-Out-The-Vote Initiative Partners With Democrat Activist Groups

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Are you ready for some football?! How about some leftist-led get-out-the-vote (GOTV) games? 

Well, you get both with the NFL Votes campaign. 

The all-powerful National Football League says the “League-wide, nonpartisan initiative supports and encourages civic engagement among NFL players, and legends, club and league personnel, and fans.” Launched in 2020 as a joint effort between the NFL and NFL Players Association, NFL Votes “focuses on three key components of the electoral process: voter education, voter registration, and voter activation,” according to the league’s website.

Sounds noble enough.

But if you’re scoring along at home, the NFL’s teammates include some of the most left-wing activist organizations on the election field today. Starting on the campaign’s roster is Rock the Vote, Voto Latino, and I am a voter

Rock the Leftists

Rock the Vote has been around since 1990, when music executives partnered with MTV and celebrities on the “Censorship is Un-American” campaign after foul-mouthed rap acts such as N.W.A and 2 Live Crew brought out an indignant wave of speech silencers.

It was a simpler time, when MTV actually played music videos. 

Thrilled by its accomplishment of activating “millions of young people” to turn out to the polls, the leftist nonprofit has parlayed its GOTV successes into a multitude of leftist causes over its 30-plus years in operation — even as targeting the young adult vote remained central to its efforts.

“The group claims to be nonpartisan, but has produced videos throughout the years using celebrities who largely endorse a

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Oprah’s Prime-Time Special With Kamala Harris Was A Shameless Tongue Bath

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Oprah Winfrey’s glitzy hour-long special with Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday night was not a feature of a serious presidential campaign, but instead a celebrity-obsessed public relations program intended to win what’s become a popularity contest.

If anyone tuned in to hear a few substantive questions about why Harris has changed so many of her policy positions, it should have been obvious what to expect by Oprah’s first question.

“Can you feel the joy rising in here?” she asks after screaming Harris’ name.

“Kamala Harris!!!!!!!!!!” Oprah to Momala: “Can you feel the joy rising in here?” Harris: “I can!” Unite for America Rally with Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey. pic.twitter.com/TbKeRfOAV3

— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) September 20, 2024

The virtual rally in Michigan marked one of Harris’ few media appearances since she became the nominee. She had only previously done one joint interview with her running mate on CNN, one brief 10-minute interview on a Pennsylvania television station, and one daytime forum with journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

On CNN, Harris barely got pushed on anything; in Pennsylvania, she barely got asked anything; and at the NABJ conference in Philadelphia, she was merely warmed up for the town hall about girl power with Winfrey. Her first question at the NABJ summit was also about how “joy” makes Harris feel all sweet, cute, and cuddly inside.

“Why is joy important to you to insert into this election?” was literally the first thing moderators

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