{"id":215037,"date":"2021-06-24T08:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=207272"},"modified":"2021-06-24T08:55:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:55:58","slug":"from-selma-to-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/24\/from-selma-to-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"From Selma to Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its shortcomings as an historical portrayal of the rabid racism that plagued the 1960\u2019s American South,\u00a0\u00a0 CBS\u2019s June 20, 2021\u00a0Selma\u00a0special drama did present a fair depiction of Dr. Martin L. King\u2019s role in African Americans\u2019 struggle to earn the right to vote as sanctioned by the Constitution of the United States. The movie\u2019s sanitized  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/24\/from-selma-to-palestine\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/24\/from-selma-to-palestine\/\">From Selma to Palestine<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/24\/from-selma-to-palestine\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its shortcomings as an historical portrayal of the rabid racism that plagued the 1960\u2019s American South,\u00a0\u00a0 CBS\u2019s June 20, 2021\u00a0Selma\u00a0special drama did present a fair depiction of Dr. Martin L. King\u2019s role in African Americans\u2019 struggle to earn t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215591,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215037\/revisions\/215591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}