News from The Hill: Lewis leads huge congressional delegation on Selma anniversary

News from The Hill Lewis leads huge congressional delegation on Selma anniversary By Mike Lillis Birmingham, Ala. — Scores of lawmakers from both parties descended here Friday to launch a long weekend of events commemorating the silver anniversary of a seminal civil rights march in Selma. President Obama will arrive Saturday morning with the First Family in tow to honor the occasion with remarks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma, where hundreds of protesters demanding equal rights for black voters met the billy clubs of state police and local vigilantes 50 years ago to block the activists' march to the state capital of Montgomery. Read more here.