News from The Hill: Obama in Selma: 'The march is not yet over'

News from The Hill Obama in Selma: 'The march is not yet over' By Jesse Byrnes and Mike Lillis SELMA, Ala. -- President Obama commemorated the 50th anniversary of the bloody march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital of Montgomery on Saturday by saying that the march reflected a broader quest to remake America that carries through to today. "We just need to open our eyes, and ears, and our hearts, to know that this nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us," Obama said while standing in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where 600 marchers clashed with state troopers in 1965 in an incident that helped spur the Voting Rights Act. Read more here.