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JUST LIKE SELMA
The Social Justice Song That Has Inspired a Movement
A Special Appeal: For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
We respectfully ask for your vote for Just Like Selma in the Grammy® categories of:
- Best American Roots Song
- Best American Roots Performance
- The Harry Belafonte Best Song for Social Change
Penned and produced by Nolan Williams, Jr., featuring recording artists Zacardi Cortez and Beverly Crawford along with Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir, Just Like Selma honors the many foot soldiers who fought and died to secure our right to vote. It also inspires us to persevere in the face of present-day voter-suppression tactics.
Your support would help bring Just Like Selma’s powerful message of justice, voting rights, and civic engagement to an even wider audience. Thank you for your consideration and support!
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About "Just Like Selma"
“ 'Just Like Selma' does what the best gospel hymns have always done. It teaches. It convicts. It unites. And it sends you back into the world changed, asking yourself how you will live just like Selma today."
- Larry W. Robinson, Gospel Updates Magazine Review
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Music has the power to move us to action. That belief along with a deep concern for the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act are what inspired American songwriter Nolan Williams, Jr. to pen the social justice hymn Just Like Selma.
Released in January 2026 on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the hymn text draws inspiration from the words of Dr. King with lyrics powerfully delivered by award-winning recording artists Zacardi Cortez, Beverly Crawford and the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir.
There is an arc, a moral compass, charting freedom’s wax and wane.
Sometimes we’re startled how that arc allows some things hard to explain.
But when the cause we fight is right, no matter what we must persist.
That arc is long a bends towards justice when we resist.
"Just Like Selma" Accolades
The official music video for Just Like Selma has earned 18 international film and media honors, including "Best Music Video" in the 2026 New York Short Film Festival. Click below to view our IMDB awards listing.
When a Song Becomes a Movement
The grassroots impact of “Just Like Selma”
Just Like Selma is more than a song. It is a spark for a movement. Through the Just Like Selma National Civic Engagement Campaign, civic groups, cultural organizations, ecumenical conferences, choirs and congregations—in total representing 20 denominations across more than 100 cities in 40 states and the District of Columbia—have used this hymn since February to inspire deeper civic engagement and encourage meaningful participation in our democracy.
The message of this campaign is clear: the march for justice did not end in Selma. Its legacy lives on wherever people come together to strengthen their communities, participate in democracy, and pursue a more just and inclusive future.
A song can move the heart. A shared song can unite a community. And when communities from coast to coast are inspired to act, a song can help move a nation.
VIDEO [above]: The Burnett Avenue Baptist Church of Louisville, KY under the direction of Rev. John Ray, Jr. | Rev. Dr. Corrie Shull, Senior Pastor
To view select videos of other participating organizations, see below and visit the Hymn-Sing page.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Sandhills of Whispering Pines, NC
The Luke Church of Humble, TX
"Just Like Selma" in the news
CBN
More Than 100 Churches, Across 19 Denominations, United by One Song (February 25, 2026)
Associated Press (via EIN Presswire)
Religion News Service
SiriusXM
Radio One
BlackAmericaWeb
NPR | 'All Things Considered'
All Things Considered (AUDIO)
Just Released
Just Like Selma is featured in the recently-released documentary, Selma Sisters March On.
Produced by When You Vote I Win, Selma Sisters March On shares the untold story of two sisters, Alice and Denise, who were just 16 and 14 when they made all three historic marches over the Edmund Pettus Bridge to fight for their parents’ right to vote.
“Music has always galvanized communities in moments of moral clarity.”— Nolan Williams, Jr.
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