A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in Alabama and their advocates are pushing for reforms in how the state ...

This may explain why Alabama struggles to honor victims of slavery. There’s no question we should. Almost half the state was enslaved in 1860. Each one of those men and women lived with the ...

Alabama has 167 people on death row ... didn’t have a problem with unanimous jury verdicts until freed slaves were made citizens and a single Black juror could prevent them from sentencing ...

Born the grandson of Alabama slaves during segregation in 1899 and facing a lifetime of personal and professional challenges, Percy Lavon Julian nevertheless went on to become one of the 20th ...

but many slave owners in the South like Meaher continued it for years. After the Civil War, Africans brought on Meaher's covert trip would go on to found Africatown, Alabama, where many of their ...

the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...

The Alabama House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday, a day commemorating the emancipation of the last remaining slaves in the U.S., though the ...

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