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The Voting Rights Act, a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, turns 60 this week. It’s not in good shape.
Burr & Forman pledged $150,000 to the University of Alabama School of Law for the Path Makers Legacy Plaza. The plaza will honor the school's first three Black graduates: Michael Anthony Figures, ...
People living in racially and economically segregated neighborhoods are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage ...
Former Dr. Phillips football standout Ha Ha Clinton-Dix has accomplished many things during his career. But he can now call ...
In 1951, a young girl named Linda Brown walked six blocks just to catch a bus to her all-Black school. A white school sat ...
Wikimedia Commons/Lizarra1 Claudette Colvin Before Rosa Parks became the face of bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was just a ...
A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...
State Rep. Ron Reynolds was joined by trans activists on the steps of the Texas Capitol to voice opposition to a ban against ...
A desert region in northern Mexico sparked the imagination of Prof. Joel Stavans, a physicist who studies the physics of ...
One of Alabama’s border states, Georgia, is considering dropping its state income tax.
With an injury-riddled rotation and a July slump, the New York Yankees should be active at the trade deadline for a starter.
Another round of heat advisories will be in effect for Alabama on Tuesday. The National Weather Service is forecasting high temperatures to reach the mid- to upper 90s in many areas again today ...