Give Fred Gray the Medal of Freedom, because no one deserves it more
Gray said it was his life's goal to fight everything segregated, and he pretty much has.
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Carl honors the memory of Mobile native, baseball legend Hank Aaron
“I’m deeply saddened to learn of Hank Aaron’s passing,” Congressman Jerry Carl said.
Civil rights leader Bruce Boynton dies at 83
The Dallas County Courthouse Annex will be renamed in honor of Boynton and fellow Civil Rights Movement leader J.L. Chestnut.
Trial begins in lawsuit challenging state’s COVID-19 election rules
A virtual trial opened on Tuesday in a lawsuit charging that Alabama’s requirements of witnesses and photo ID for absentee ballots and a “de facto ban” on curbside voting are unconstitutional. The suit, People First v. Merrill, was filed on May 1 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, … Continued
Plaintiffs ask for panel of judges to reconsider ruling on Alabama voter ID law
Plaintiffs suing Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill alleging the state’s voter ID law discriminates against minorities on Monday asked a panel of judges to reconsider an appeals court decision that affirmed the law. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Monday filed a petition Monday asking that all of the judges on the … Continued
Groups call for Rep. Will Dismukes to resign, state Legislature to address racist policies
The Montgomery nonprofit Alabama Arise, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries in a joint statement on Friday called for Dismukes’ resignation and for the state Legislature to address systemic, racially-oppressive policies.
Federal appeals court upholds Alabama’s voter ID law
Federal appeals judges on Tuesday allowed Alabama’s voter ID law to move forward, upholding a lower court’s decision that the law is not racially discriminatory.
Supreme Court sides with Alabama in COVID-19 voting case
The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision Thursday blocked a federal district judge’s order that would have made it easier for many Alabamians to vote during the pandemic, issuing an emergency stay of the lower court’s injunction in People First of Alabama v. Merrill. The court’s more liberal justices dissented, while the five conservative … Continued
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See recent postsThere is no redemption for George Wallace
George Wallace’s name doesn’t deserve to be on any building anywhere. That there is debate about this is, quite frankly, astounding. And it’s yet another example of the whitewashing of history that has gone on for far too long in this state, and throughout the South. We love a good redemption story, even if it’s … Continued
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See recent postsEchoes of George Wallace heard as tear gas and rubber bullets fly in Huntsville
A small group of mostly peaceful protesters were shot with rubber bullets and tear-gassed by Huntsville Police and Madison County sheriff’s deputies after an NAACP rally last Wednesday. The city’s mayor, police chief and the state’s attorney general want the public to believe that anarchists and outsiders provoked law-enforcement to use paramilitary tactics to disperse … Continued