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New abortion ban draws large protests to State Capitol, other cities

On Sunday afternoon, Alabamians protesting the abortion ban bill recently passed by 25 white Republican men in the Alabama Senate and signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey, turned out in large numbers to protest the bill at a March for Reproductive Freedom held in downtown Montgomery The large crowd was diverse in every way: … Continued

May 21, 2019

Rep. Clarke announces Equal Pay Bill

Alabama legislators on both sides of the aisle are coming together to support a bill to ensure equal pay for each employee, no matter their gender. Rep. Adline Clarke, D-Mobile, announced the Equal Pay Bill yesterday on Equal Pay Day, a day that represents how much women have to work into the next year in … Continued

Mikayla Burns

April 4, 2019

Jones sponsors Paycheck Fairness Act in effort to close gender gap

Loopholes within the Equal Pay Act of 1963 that allow discrimination in pay due to gender would be no more if Alabama Sen. Doug Jones’ Paycheck Fairness Act passes. On Jan. 30, 2019, Jones and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, want the Paycheck Fairness Act to help dissipate the wage gap between men and women, focusing … Continued

Mikayla Burns

January 31, 2019

Activist Angela Davis to receive Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s top human rights award

Birmingham native Angela Y. Davis, a scholar and author who has taught at numerous universities in the United States and traveled the world on a mission to expand human and civil rights, is the 2018 recipient of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award. It’s the organization’s highest honor for individuals who … Continued

Chip Brownlee

October 9, 2018

Opinion

Conservatives must not leave the culture war battle to “summertime soldiers and sunshine patriots”

There are certain fundamental truths in life that neither the liberal elite nor the left-wing media nor the activists federal courts can change no matter how hard they try. For example, I know that marriage ordained by God can only occur between a man and a woman. I know that individuals should use the rest … Continued

Will Ainsworth

May 25, 2018

Sponsor says better House leadership could have saved racial profiling bill

A piece of legislation that would have implemented a method to track racial profiling data in police stops didn’t make it out of this year’s legislative session after House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia, pronounced the bill dead on a radio show Thursday morning. Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, who sponsored the legislation, said better leadership in … Continued

Chip Brownlee

March 30, 2018

Alabama Senate passes bill to prohibit, track racial profiling in traffic stops

By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama State Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of a bill that would define racial profiling, prohibit law enforcement officers from engaging in it and require law enforcement agencies to track the race of those pulled over for traffic stops. Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, introduced the bill, which … Continued

Chip Brownlee

January 17, 2018

Opinion

The coward’s way

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Know a sentence you never hear anyone say? “Boy, that discrimination really worked out for us.” Think about it. Thousands of years of discrimination based on race, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation and heritage, but no one ever looks back on any of it and thinks about how great … Continued

Josh Moon

January 30, 2017

Report Finds Alabama State Courts Do Not Mirror Population

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY— A first-of-its-kind quantitative report found that Alabama’s court system is failing to adequately represent the diversity of the State’s population. The report entitled, The Gavel Gap: Who Sits in Judgement at State Courts?, was authored by law professors Tracey E. George and Albert H. Yoon, and published by … Continued

Bill Britt

June 24, 2016