Bearing Witness
The new movie, Selma shows that the past is still relevant to the present, and that progress is never guaranteed.
Author information: Richard Valeriani was an NBC News correspondent for 28 years, covering the White House, the State Department, and such major stories as the assassination of JFK, the Civil Rights Revolution in the South and the War in the Falkland Islands. He was also the Washington correspondent for the Today show when news was news.