NEWorks Productions
Announces A Voters Mobilization Project and
Commemorates the 61st Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’
JUST LIKE SELMA
Featuring Award-Winning Producer Nolan Williams Jr.,
Grammy Award Nominated Gospel Legends
Zacardi Cortez & Beverly Crawford
with the historic Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir
As civic leaders and social justice advocates from around the nation gather in Selma, Alabama from Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8 to commemorate the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a powerful new anthem will be included in the programming.
Just Like Selma (NEWorks Productions/Red Alliance) is a stirring social-justice hymn composed by award-winning producer Nolan Williams, Jr., featuring Grammy-nominated Gospel artists Zacardi Cortez and Beverly Crawford, alongside the 130-voice Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir in Houston, TX. The song commemorates the historic 1965 Selma marches—where peaceful demonstrators were brutally attacked while demanding their constitutional right to vote—and honors how that moment of national reckoning helped inspire President Lyndon B. Johnson and the U.S. Congress to pass the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the a cappella hymn evokes the spirit and sound of traditional civil rights anthems while speaking directly to the urgent moral challenges of today.
The song also serves as a soundtrack for the Freedom Advances civic engagement initiative meant to bring awareness to the importance of voting historically and in the 2026 mid-term elections. More than 135 churches, chapels, choirs, and organizations—spanning 20 denominations and representing three-fourths of the United States — have joined the ‘Just Like Selma’ Hymn-sing Project and are using the song as a teaching tool. The project has further been endorsed by the 8.5 million-member National Baptist Convention, USA and the 2.5-million-member Progressive National Baptist Convention denomination that gave birth to the activism of trailblazers such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Fannie Lou Hamer.
The video is currently available: click link here.
The audio for the song is available: click link here.
Just Like Selma is already receiving accolades, including: “Best Music Video” and “Best Sound Design” in the Touchstone Independent Film Festival (January 2026); “Best Director Music Video” in the Sweden Film Awards (January 2026); “Best Song” in the Top Shorts Film Festival (February 2026), and a ranking as one of the “15 Best Films” by the Los Angeles Film Awards (February 2026).
