Posts Tagged ‘Alabama’
Working to restore voting rights to returning citizens ahead of the general election
The voting rights for people with some felony convictions have been restored in the state of Alabama. However, many in the Black community still face many barriers to voting. Alabama did not inform citizens of the new 2017 law, so those affected are not aware of their right to vote. This is happening in other states as well.
Read MoreFor Black Women With Means, Money Isn’t The Only Barrier To Abortion Access
An interview with Linda Goler Blount, the chief executive of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, allows an insight to how abortion for women of color has changed in recent times.
Read MoreIn the Hate of Dixie
Cynthia Tucker describes the life style and the lynching of the south when racial tensions were at an all time high. Monroeville celebrated Harper Lee for her book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, however, the town of Monroeville failed to implement the ideals of Lee’s book. Tucker talks about the legal processes that affected the crimes in the south, and how we must learn from the past to secure a better future.
Read MoreHow Rosa Parks’ Legacy Lives On In The Black Lives Matter Movement
Rosa Parks would believe that #BlackLivesMatter, too. By Zeba Blay, the Huffington Post Sixty years ago on this day, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and settled in to American history. We’ve seen the iconic pictures of Parks getting booked at the police station, or later staged seated on…
Read More‘Bloody Sunday’ Anniversary Commemorated With March Across Selma Bridge
Tens of thousands of people paraded across a Selma, Alabama bridge on Sunday to commemorate the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march, not waiting for dignitaries who had planned to lead them in marking the 50th anniversary of a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Read MoreDiversity Targeted in ‘White Genocide’ Billboard Near Birmingham, AL
Birmingham, AL, billboard targets diversity as an attack on whites.
Read MoreAlabama Pardons 3 ‘Scottsboro Boys’ After 80 Years
The names of three Black men who were falsely accused of raping a white woman have been cleared, although they’re not alive to witness it.
Read MoreThe Speech That Shocked Birmingham the Day After the Church Bombing
The day after four little girls were murdered in church, a young white family man gave a speech about racism at a meeting of his Birmingham men’s club. He was to be forever shunned. This is what he said.
Read MoreExonerating the Scottsboro Nine
This landmarked case changed criminal justice permanently, and now the victims of a false accusation have been posthumously pardoned.
Read MoreThis Day in Black History: Justice Prevails After 39 Years for Four Little Girls
It took nearly four decades for the final defendant in the infamous Birmingham church bombing case to be convicted.
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