A newspaper in Alabama published an editorial calling “for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again.” The editorial in the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama, said the KKK “would be welcome to raid the gated communities up there,” referring to where Democrats and “Democrats in the Republican Party” live in and around Washington, D.C. The […]
A debate has reignited about whether voter ID laws suppress the Black vote.
Cornell Brooks, President of the NAACP, and other activists were arrested on Monday for staging a sit-in at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ office.
On this day in 1990, the city of Selma, Ala. once again became the epicenter of racial tensions after a city-wide school boycott. Students were angered at the firing of the city’s first Black school superintendent, Dr. Norwand Rousell, who lost his job after dismantling what he felt was a discriminatory policy. In 1987, Dr. […]
Federal officials conclude that closing and reducing services in driver license's centers in Alabama violates civil rights, reaching an agreement Wednesday with the state law enforcement agency to ensure "that all Alabama residents have access to driver licensing programs, regardless of race, color or national origin."
Twenty-four-year-old De'Launa Powell was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in Alabama.
An elderly Alabama man tied an alleged burglar to a tree. The intruder was dead when deputies arrived.
Two prison officials were stabbed, one nine times, but their injuries are not life-threatening.
The victim says Samuel H. McHenry II handcuffed and assaulted her after she was involved in a car accident he was sent to investigate.
City found that the land donated to the hate group was unstable for a flagpole.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) deemed President Obama the most "racially divisive president since slavery."
A recently released video which shows the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Cameron Massey at the hands of Alabama police officers has reignited interest in the case. The incident, which took place in October 2013, has become a crusade of the slain man’s family and their attorney says the footage strikes down claims that Massey was […]