On Thursday, over 100 people gathered at ArtsRevive to hear eight separate stories all pertaining to Selma as part of the Selma200 project with the help of Blue Magnolia Films.

The Selma200 storytellers were Afriye We-kandodis, Patty Sexton and Beth Spivey, JoAnne Bland and Kimberly Smitherman, Vickey Stoudenmire, Clay Carmichael, Linda Derry, Jawana Jackson and Pride Forney and Ronnie Leet and Amy Milligan.

All are very diverse and have different points of view, but they all have one thing common: a love for Selma.

The differences between them are things that don’t matter when it comes to improving the community they live in.

That is something that we can all learn from.

When we get to the root of who we are, we can see that we have common goals and that we can come together to work to the improvement of our community.