News Wrap: Biden pushes for voting rights during visit to Selma

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• John Yang:

  President Biden went to Selma, Alabama to mark the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. That's when hundreds of protesters were violently attacked by police during a voting rights march. Today, the President used the occasion to highlight the Democrats push to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

• Joe Biden, U.S. President:

  Selma is a reckoning the right to vote, the right to vote to have your vote counted as the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it, anything's possible without it. Without that right, nothing is possible.

• John Yang:

  President Biden has pushed for two voting rights bills while in office including one name for the late Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, who was badly beaten of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.

  Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan ended speculation today saying he will not run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Hogan is a moderate Republican who served two terms and heavily Democratic Maryland. He's also a longtime and vocal critic of Donald Trump. Hogan says he wants to avoid a crowded Republican field that could help the former president win the nomination.

  And Bangladesh, the Rohingya refugee camp erupted in flames today. UN and local officials said no one was killed but the thousands are homeless. More than a million Muslim Rohingya refugees have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh over the past several decades to escape persecution.

  And a trailblazing advocate for disability rights has died. Judy Heumann's lifelong activism fought discrimination and prejudice against people with disabilities. Her work led to major legislation including the Americans with Disabilities Act. She was featured in the 2020 prize winning documentary Crip Camp, and was once a special adviser to President Barack Obama on International Disability Rights. In 2021, she spoke to the NewsHour about her work.

• Judy Huemann, Disability Rights Activist:

  I think having a disability really has allowed me to do and get in touch with so many things and opportunities that otherwise would not have happened. People look at us as the label of our disability. And it is a part of who we are. But it is not who we are.

• John Yang:

  Judy Huemann was 75 years old.

  Still to come on "PBS News Weekend," fear that an insurance change will limit access to a type of breast reconstruction surgery and the story of NASA's first Hispanic female astronaut.