AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:Let's check back in on a place and a person we recently got to know very well on this show.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)JOANNE BLAND: Selma gave so much. This history is so rich that it's sort of like Mecca coming to America.RASCOE: JoAnne Bland is a veteran of the civil rights movement and Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala. She's been giving tours of her hometown for over 30 years, making sure that time is never forgotten. She took us on a tour recently for WEEKEND EDITION's series on the civil rights generation. So we wanted to check on her now that Selma is hurting, hit by devastating storms and a tornado that recently swept across the region. JoAnne Bland joins us now. And I just want to say, like, I am so sorry, and we are all so sorry to hear about what's happened to Selma.BLAND: Well, it's devastating. It hurts so bad to see my beloved home look like it is. In all my years, I've not experienced this, but it's bad.RASCOE: Can you give us a sense of what the...
