montgomery, alabama
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Montgomery Mayor “Shocked” By What He Saw in Video of Alabama Riverfront Brawl
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed reveals more details and calls out perpetrators of the Alabama riverfront brawl for attacking a man just "doing their job."
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Montgomery Will Host Celebration To Mark 66th Anniversary Of Bus Boycotts
Events will include a unity walk, concert, museum activities and more.
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102-Year-Old Black World War II Vet From Segregated Mail Unit Receives Congressional Gold Medal
Romay Davis, 102, is being honored for her work in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
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Not Saying America Is Racist or Anything, but Over 240 Schools Are Named After Confederate Leaders
Over the summer, cities and states scrambled to respond to the protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s death from police violence. Among the many symbolic gestures was the renaming of schools named after Confederate leaders. According to CNN, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has found that over 240 schools are named after…
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Jury Convicts White Cop for Killing Unarmed Black Man
Although the heinous 2016 police shooting only garnered marginal national attention, eight judges refused to try the case. The trial venue was changed from a majority-black city to a rural, mostly white county…in Alabama. The defendant was a white cop who shot and killed a black man…in Alabama. Still, in less than two hours of…
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Happy Confederate Day! On Lynching Memorials and Winning the Narrative War
On Monday, Alabama is set to observe Confederate Memorial Day, commemorating the sons of the South killed in the Civil War. No surprise there. Alabama loves fighting with Mississippi for the title of “most racist state” (though they actually may be running neck and neck with “everything south of the Canadian border,” if we’re keeping…
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American Lynching: 4,000 Unpunished Crimes
When I speak or teach, I love to tell my audiences that I know, deep in my heart, that they would turn down $1 million if it were offered to them. You would, too. I use a story that those who read about A. Philip Randolph, the leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,…