Selma

David Oyelowo:  “I truly believe that the film has potential to be an agent of much-needed healing for this country. The devil doesn’t enjoy that.”

But plainly, this was a movement conceived and led by black people that changed the trajectory of the nation, and showed again how change usually comes first from the outside of power, not the inside, and from the bottom and not the top of society.

We can’t ignore the timing of this film. Out of the many biopics Hollywood has produced in the past 50 years, this is the first theatrical release on Dr. King. In light of Ferguson, Staten Island, and the marches throughout the country calling for racial justice, the film’s subject matter is all the more compelling and its timing more opportune.

According to Oyelowo, “We wrapped on the third of July. Michael Brown was killed on the ninth of August. There was no way that we could know a historical film could feel as relevant as it is in the shape of Selma. I think God knew all along.”

This is the end of a recent interview with David Oyelowo (star who portrays Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie "Selma") by Sojourner's Jim Wallis.  Read the full article/interview here.

Please see this movie this month in a theater near you.