Tag: Martin Luther King Jr
Terri Sewell commemorates the 59th Anniversary of the bombing of the 16th...
Thursday was the 59th anniversary of the bombing of the 16 Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four little girls during the height of the Civil Rights Movement....
Will Sellers: Bending the universe towards justice
Dr. Martin Luther King argued that the arc of the moral universe is long and bends toward justice. This geometry lesson was...
Juneteenth marked as state holiday in Alabama this year
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has authorized Juneteenth Day — the federal holiday marking the end of slavery — as a holiday for...
Alabama church of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on endangered places list
Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the beginning...
Will Sellers: The consensus justice
It was no surprise when 60 years ago President John F. Kennedy nominated Byron White as an Associate Justice of the United...
Bill seeks higher fines for taking down Confederate statues
A legislative committee advanced a proposal Tuesday to increase the fines on cities that take down Confederate monuments in Alabama.
Omicron wave leaves U.S. food banks scrambling for volunteers
Food banks across the country are experiencing a critical shortage of volunteers as the omicron variant frightens people away from their usual shifts,...
William Haupt III: Know your rights and how to protect them
"At one time, getting passing grades in civics and U.S. history were prerequisites for high school graduation. Our biggest mistake was to...
Judge clears 1955 court record of civil rights pioneer, Claudette Colvin
A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was arrested for refusing to...
Montgomery faces fine, lawsuit for dropping Confederate name
Alabama’s capital city last month removed the Confederate president’s name from an avenue and renamed it after a lawyer known for his...
