Alabama

When criminal-justice reform advocates speak of the ills of policies like “three strikes” laws that mandate long…

The mayor of the third blackest city in America unveiled a plan that could fundamentally transform the future of the…

Months after saying she didn’t know nothing about her sorority’s college yearbook page showing women in blackface,…

Randa Ragland’s 3-year-old son, Jaxen, is fighting for his life.

Here’s something I never thought I’d live to see: a historically black college has been slapped with a lawsuit…

All a Jefferson County, Ala., couple was trying to do was sell a damn house, but in what’s become an everyday…

Seven months after protests shut down the Alabama mall where a police officer shot and killed EJ Bradford,…

In April, we learned of Nigel Shelby—the 15-year-old Huntsville High freshman who allegedly took his own life after…

Veteran African-American Democrats in the House are taking freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to task over how…

Marshae Jones, the Alabama woman who was arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of her fetus after she…

Lawyers representing a group of five black men ranging from 15 to 20 years old announced plans to file a lawsuit…

Lawyers for Marshae Jones, the Alabama woman charged with manslaughter after her unborn baby was shot and killed in…

Law enforcement officials formally charged a woman with killing her unborn child after she was shot during an…

Alabama has made a move toward loosening rapists’ hold on parental rights in the state.

In 2017, when Briarwood Presbyterian Church asked the overwhelmingly Republican legislature of Alabama to grant it…

What is up with these Southern states when it comes to women’s rights? (And as a proud New Yorker with deep roots in…

Alabama is continuing its ascension to the weirdest state in the country, coming in a close second to Florida, as…

The mayor of Carbon Hill, Ala., is in deep shit after reportedly spewing homophobic rhetoric in a since-deleted…

Donald Trump still has love for accused child molester and possible new-old candidate for a U.S. Senate from Alabama…