From the West Alabama Newsroom– Selma is one of the many communities in our viewing area that preparing to celebrate Juneteenth this week. Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee held a press conference this morning outlining its celebration plans — and the meaning behind the holiday. About 4 million enslaved people were freed — at the end of the Civil War — on April 9th 1865. “The problem is people in Galveston, Texas did not get the memo,” said Jubilee …
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