The Nemtsov Affair: Russian police say a suspect in the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov blew himself up as they were demanding his surrender. At least five suspects are now in custody, one of them reported to be a former member of security forces, and all of them Chechens. But so far there’s no explanation for why Nemtsov was killed. At the time of his death he was investigating Russian military involvement in Ukraine, but other theories include that he was killed to smear Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Culture War: Iraqi authorities say they fear that a second major archeological treasure has been put to the bulldozer by Islamic State extremists. The 2000-year-old walled city of Hatra, which once withstood a siege by Roman legions, may have been reduced to rubble. Hatra, with its columns, walls, arches, and statues had withstood the ages until the arrival of ISIS. They are bent upon destroying what they say are false idols and shrines, and wiping out history in the process.

ISIS previously destroyed the Assyrian city of Nimrud, which was founded in the 13^th century BC.

The Long March: Fifty years after the infamous incident known in civil rights history as “Bloody Sunday,” President Obama spoke in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., yesterday and said the country has made great progress in civil rights. He said the people who marched in Selma were “heroes.”

But the president had to frame his remarks against last week’s Justice Department report that described rampant racism in the Ferguson, Mo. police department. “What happened in Ferguson may not be unique,” Obama said, “but it’s no longer endemic. It’s no longer sanctioned by law or custom, and before the civil rights movement, it most surely was.”

Fifty years ago 600 people marching for voting rights were stopped and beaten by police officers as they approached the Pettus Bridge, named for a Civil War era grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. The incident sped the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Obama said, “If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done.”

Nation: The fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Madison, Wisc., spurred protests yesterday. Police say they were called about an erratic and reckless driver and followed him to an apartment. They say 19-year-old Tony Robinson attacked when they entered the apartment and one officer drew his gun and fired. Yesterday dozens of protesters chanted “Black lives matter.”

MH370: A report on the Malaysian airliner one year after it went missing says the battery on the underwater locator beacon had expired a year earlier, but it’s unknown if that hampered the search. Families who gathered for a one-year remembrance of the missing expressed their disappointment that investigators still don’t know what happened to the jet with 239 people on board.

No, They Didn’t: An Indonesian sportswear maker is in trouble for the laundry instructions they put on the label of soccer jerseys. The label says, “Washing instructions: Give this shirt to a woman. It’s her job.”

Clockers: It’s the first day of daylight savings time. Set your analog devices one hour ahead.

Higher Ed: In case you were wondering what’s on the minds of college students these days, the student government at the University of California Irvine passed a rule this past week banning the display of the American Flag in one of the main student spaces.

Citing the flag as a symbol of colonialism and imperialism, the bill reads, in part, “Whereas flags construct paradigms of conformity and sets (sic) homogenized standards for others to obtain which typically in this country are idolized as freedom, equality, and democracy,” therefore the flag is banned.

You know, those imperialist homogenized paradigms of freedom and equality have just got to go.

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