Tag: civil rights
Randall Woodfin writes Pennsylvania mayor over ‘misrepresentation’ of 1963 protests
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin penned a letter to Arnold, Pa. Mayor Karen Peconi on Thursday expressing his concerns over what he called her "deliberate misrepresentation"...
Doug Jones introduces bill to open civil rights cold case files,...
Alabama U.S. Sen. Doug Jones introduced a bill on Tuesday that would mandate the release of government records related to unsolved civil rights cases —...
How today’s loudest progressives are nothing like those who fought for...
"Unlike the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today’s liberal...
More civil rights groups support appeal in voter ID lawsuit
More civil rights groups are challenging a federal judge’s ruling that an Alabama voter ID law is not discriminatory.
Alabama has required voters to present...
Georgette Norman hopes to use Alabama’s history to build bridges and...
Passionate. Friends of Georgette Norman say if they had one word to describe her, that’s what it’d be.
Norman takes a more thoughtful approach. With...
Oprah visits grave of Alabama civil rights icon Recy Taylor
On Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey visited the grave of Recy Taylor, an African-American Alabama woman whose story Winfrey highlighted in her recent Golden Globes speech.
Taylor was a...
8 Alabama cities included in new national civil rights trail
Alabama and 13 other states, along with the District of Columbia, joined together to debut the U.S. Civil Rights Trail on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr....
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute celebrates 25 years of education, dialogue and...
The dignified domed building on 16th Street North in downtown Birmingham looks as though it was always meant to be there. The Birmingham Civil Rights...
Businesses ask Supreme Court to take gay rights case
Some of America's most well-known companies are urging the Supreme Court to rule that a federal employment discrimination law prohibits discrimination based on a...
Charlottesville poses new civil rights test for Jeff Sessions
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a son of the segregated South who was named after leaders of the Confederacy, faces a tough new test of his...
