by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 28, 2026 | Emails
Only six days to Election Day. Friends, The Freedom Ride has reached New Orleans, the stop the original Freedom Riders weren’t allowed to reach by bus due to extreme racism and violence, and boy, what a feeling! Especially six days away from...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 28, 2026 | Press Coverage
65 years later, the journey from the nation’s capital to Louisiana is being re-created. On Tuesday, the ride stopped in Selma, with Freedom Riders, family members and the local community all in attendance. Read Full Article
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 28, 2026 | Press Coverage
Video from the Selma stop. Watch the Report
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 27, 2026 | Emails
Here’s what I told The Telegraph. Friends, Last week, on the Virginia State University campus in Petersburg, a reporter from The Telegraph asked me what I believe about Donald Trump. I told her that I find him to be a moral void. And I really mean...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 27, 2026 | Press Coverage
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Ride bus tour made a stop in the Selma today — marking the 65th anniversary of the Freedom Rides. The event is also an effort to fire-up area voters ahead of the upcoming mid-term election. Organizers hosted a voter rally — that...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 27, 2026 | Press Coverage
A group of 1961 Freedom Riders is encouraging young people to vote across the South. Organizers stopped at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in time for election season. Read Full Article
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 27, 2026 | Press Coverage
A national bus tour commemorating the 1961 Freedom Ride is due to arrive Wednesday in New Orleans. Why it matters: The event aims to rally voters at HBCU stops across the country and wraps up at Xavier University, which played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement....
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 27, 2026 | Press Coverage
On Mother’s Day in 1961, a pair of buses carrying a group of civil rights activists rolled into Anniston, leading to one of the seminal moments of the struggle for Read Full Article
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 25, 2026 | Emails
We have a week and a bus. Friends, Sixty-five years later, Hank Thomas, a national hero and original Freedom Rider, got back on The Ride. We are so incredibly honored and...
