BuzzFeed - Originally, Selma focused on President Lyndon B. Johnson, until director Ava DuVernay stepped in. "I wasn't interested in telling the story of a white savior," she told BuzzFeed News. Left to right: Tessa Thompson (Diane Nash), Omar Dorsey (James Orange), Colman Domingo (Ralph Abernathy), David Oyelowo (Martin Luther King Jr.), Andre Holland (Andrew Young), Corey Reynolds (Rev. C.T. Vivian), and Lorraine Toussaint (Amelia Boynton) in Selma. Atsushi Nishijima/Paramount Pictures NEW YORKâ In mid-December, thousands of men, women, and children marched all over New York City, protesting a grand jury's decision not to indict the officer who put unarmed, asthmatic Staten Island civilian Eric Garner in the chokehold that led to his death. The demonstrating ran all weekend long, from the large scale assembling of 25,000 people (some in business suits, others in "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts) on the West Side, to impromptu jogs throughout the city by college fraternity members, raising their
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