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Jefferson County imposes curfew following unrest

The Jefferson County Commission on Tuesday placed the entire county under a curfew. The curfew will be in effect Tuesday, June 2 and last through June 9, 2020. The curfew will run from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The curfew is in response to unrest that erupted in Birmingham on Sunday night. Though most of … Continued

Brandon Moseley

June 3, 2020

State files lawsuit against Birmingham for removing Confederate monument

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a new lawsuit against the city of Birmingham Tuesday for removing a Confederate monument in Linn Park. Local officials in Alabama’s largest city, which has a majority black population, removed a 115-year-old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument in the city’s Linn Park after protestors and demonstrators vandalized it Sunday. … Continued

Chip Brownlee

June 2, 2020

Sessions: Looting will continue until arrests are made, lawbreakers are jailed

Monday morning, former Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Sessions (R) called on Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) to call out the National Guard and for Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin to impose a curfew on the troubled city. “The surge of destruction and violence we witnessed last night in the great city of Birmingham … Continued

Brandon Moseley

June 2, 2020

Protestors deface Confederate monument in Birmingham

Angry protesters on Sunday tried to destroy a Confederate monument in Linn Park in Birmingham and successfully tore down a statue. The protesters defaced the Confederate monument, chipped away part of the concrete and pulled the wooden barrier off the base, according to WBRC Fox 6 in Birmingham. The protestors successfully pulled down a statue … Continued

Brandon Moseley

June 1, 2020

Marshall files motion to protect Birmingham Confederate monument after court ruling

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has asked the Jefferson County Circuit Court to temporarily delay a judge’s decision striking down Alabama’s 2017 monument protection act. If Marshall’s Jan. 25 request for a stay is granted, the law and its legal protections for a Confederate monument in Birmingham will remain in place until the court case travels … Continued

Chip Brownlee

January 28, 2019

Opinion

Mayor Woodfin: Tear down that statue

Dear Mayor Woodfin, Tear it down. Get a few blow torches and axes, maybe a jackhammer or two, and tear down that Confederate monument in Linn Park. If you’d like, to appease the phony historians out there, save a portion to be put in a museum in town. But tear it down. A Jefferson County … Continued

Josh Moon

January 16, 2019

Strange defends Trump’s position on Confederate statues

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, August 17, 2017, US Senator Luther Strange (R) went on the Fox Business News channel to back up President Trump’s lamenting of the removal of Confederate statues in some areas of the country. Sen. Strange said, “As a Republican from Alabama … I agree with the president — … Continued

Brandon Moseley

August 23, 2017

Judge Dismisses Suit to Restore Confederate Flags to the State Capitol

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, September 8, Montgomery Circuit Judge Truman M. Hobbs dismissed a case against Gov. Robert Bentley (R) alleging that he illegally removed four Confederate flags from a Confederate Veteran’s memorial on the State capitol grounds. Judge Hobbs ruled that the plaintiffs were not harmed by the removal and … Continued

Brandon Moseley

September 9, 2015

Save Our South Files Lawsuit to Protect Confederate Memorial in Birmingham

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, August 20 the Confederate Heritage groups, Save Our South, announced that they have filed a lawsuit and restraining order against the city of Birmingham in order to thwart efforts by the Birmingham Parks and Recreation Board to remove the 110 year old Confederate Memorial in Linn Park. … Continued

Brandon Moseley

August 21, 2015

Author, Activist Dies After Addressing Southern Heritage Rally

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Saturday, July 18, hundreds of protestors waving Confederate flags and wearing pro-confederate apparel came to rally for their Southern heritage and the Confederate Veterans monument in Linn Park that the Birmingham Parks and Recreation Board wants to remove from the heart of Birmingham’s largest city. Black pro-Confederate flag … Continued

Brandon Moseley

July 21, 2015