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Article snippet: Several Democratic presidential hopefuls visited Selma, Ala., on Sunday to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in the city. Sens. MORE (D-Ohio), who is considering his own White House bid, was also in attendance. The original march occurred on March 7, 1965, when peaceful demonstrators marched from Selma toward Montgomery and were violently attacked by law enforcement as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On Sunday afternoon, demonstrators again marched across the same bridge. Earlier Sunday, Booker delivered a keynote address at the Brown Chapel AME Church, the original starting point of the 1965 march. Booker said during his remarks that the U.S. is "failing its moral obligations." "We live in a nation that is failing its moral obligations to its children, to its people," Booker said, according to Reuters. "I worry now that we are at a point in our country where we see a moral vandalism that is attacking our ideals and beliefs and eroding the dream of our nation," he later added. Booker also said that it is "time for us to defend the dream," according to the Associated Press. “It’s time that we dare to dream again in America," he added. "That is what it takes to make America great. It is up to us to do the work that makes the dream real.” The presence of the 2020 hopefuls in Selma highlighted the urgency of candidates to appeal to black voters ahead of the primaries. Several candidates — namely Sens. MORE —... Link to the full article to read more