alabama
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Ala. Governor and Legislature Fight to Hold On to Confederate Legacy
Some white people are doubling down on efforts to keep their white supremacist trophies. Alabama’s Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation this week that will prevent cities and counties in the state from removing Confederacy monuments from public property, according to The Hill. The bill blocks local governments from removing monuments that have been on…
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Ala. University Student on a Mission to Mow 50 Lawns in 50 States Challenges Kids Worldwide
There are lots of things university students can do to occupy their time. The workload alone is one thing; then there are clubs, charities and other extracurricular activities. Rodney Smith Jr., who hails from Alabama, however, is on a mission to mow 50 lawns in 50 states. Smith started his own nonprofit, Raising Men Lawn…
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Jeff Sessions’ Senate Replacement Will Probably Be More Racist Than Jeff Sessions
When Donald Trump nominated Jeff Sessions—the love child of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Keebler elf—as attorney general of the United States, it was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, the Vulcan-eared bigot who once, according to sworn testimony, called a white civil rights attorney a “disgrace to his race” and the NAACP an “un-American”…
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45 Years After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ended, the Legal Fallout Lives On in Federal Court: Report
It has been some 45 years since the horrific “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, came to an end after it was exposed that medical workers, working with the U.S. Public Health Service, were withholding treatment from nonconsenting and unsuspecting black men infected with syphilis—which…
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Judge Allows White Ala. Town to Return to Segregation
A judge told a mostly white suburb near one of the blackest cities in the country that—after reviewing all of the facts—she believed the town’s request to separate itself was motivated by race. She stressed that the move could encourage feelings of racial inferiority among the district’s black students. The judge chastised the white citizens…
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Happy Anniversary, White Supremacy!
Because many people have accused The Root of not being inclusive and focusing on issues of race too much, please allow us to extend our most heartfelt, warmest wishes on this—your day of celebration. As Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama celebrate Confederate Memorial Day (which I have long proposed be renamed “White Tear-mas”—because who else but…
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Earth Day 2017: 3 Environmental-Justice Groups That Are Putting Up a Good Fight in Trump’s America
In the United States, race is the dominant factor when it comes to living in a toxic environment because black, brown and poor people are more likely to live in polluted communities with contaminated water, dirty air and toxic waste. Seeing that our 45th president is indifferent to climate change and thinks that shutting down…
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Ala. Gov. Robert Bentley Resigns Because He’s a Messy Thot
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Monday as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, who allege that Bentley abused his position as the state’s chief executive to cover up an affair with his former aide Rebekah Caldwell Mason. “I can no longer allow my family, my dear friends, my dedicated staff and cabinet to be…
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Ala. Kidnap Victim Used Insulin Pump to Escape Locked Trunk
An Alabama nursing student is sharing the harrowing story of how she was kidnapped and then made a daring escape after she used the light from her insulin pump to find the latch of the trunk she was locked in before jumping out to safety. According to NBC News, 25-year-old Brittany Diggs was kidnapped last…