Alabama eliminating DMVs in majority-black counties to stop black people from...
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Birmingham, Alabama is 73 percent African-American and of course a history of some of the nation's most notorious racial violence. The Birmingham News now has 0 black reporters.
Who do you think Donald Trump reminds Alabama voters of? "Donald Trump is telling the truth and people don't always like that," said Donald Kidd, a 73-year-old retired pipe welder.
I was reading this old Pete Axthelm profile of Ken Stabler from 1980. A real classy guy. Among the highlight is when he and his team set up a reporter they hated for a cocaine bust. The only affair involving Stabler that brings no laughter,...
I've long said that the passage of the 18th Amendment was the worst day in American history, but even after Prohibition was repealed in 1933, states and counties could continue.
Ellen Spears' new environmental history of the chemical industry in Anniston, Alabama is a worthy addition to the literature on environmental justice. She tells the story of Anniston, a city.
While I am usually in favor of keeping statues and other public monuments to horrible racists up and then interpreting them, naming major buildings or public works projects is a whole other thing. That's certainly true of Selma's Edward Pettus Bridge. I didn't know who...
Fifty years after Selma, it's worth remembering that the continued exploitation of poor blacks by whites also includes their environmental exploitation, as (largely) white-owned companies use their neighborhoods for toxic.
On December 5, 1894, Alabama repealed its child labor law in order to convince the officials of the Dwight Manufacturing Company, a textile corporation, to move its mill operations from.
This is an excellent but depressing piece of reporting on the resegregation of Tuscaloosa schools after a series of Supreme Court decisions rolled back the progress made in integrating America's public schools. Be sure to view the slideshow and the full story. Of course, the...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal complaint against conditions in an Alabama poultry factory. Beatriz Navedo began to feel dizzy as she worked a processing line at.
Obviously the real victims here are the white people made to understand that white supremacy is offensive. McAdory High School has issued a public apology for a "Trail of Tears".