Tag: racism
Jeff Sessions, Doug Jones at odds over renaming military bases
Alabama Democrat, U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, and former U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Senate-hopeful Jeff Sessions went head to head online Saturday over...
Joe Biden on racism: White people ‘can never fully understand’
Visiting a black church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan during the civil rights era, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden framed current...
Michael Cohen expected to claim lying, racism and cheating by Donald...
President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is expected to give a behind-the-scenes account of what he will claim is Trump's lying, racism...
Jefferson County School Board member Donna Pike apologizes for social media...
Irondale-Republican and Jefferson County School Board member Donna Pike is apologizing for social media post that some have deemed racist.
On Tuesday, Pike found herself...
Birmingham’s Randall Woodfin takes a stand against racism in his city
In 1963, Birmingham, Ala. was a KKK stronghold. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went so far as to describe it as America’s worst city...
U.S. Court of Appeals denies Gardendale school split, cites racial reasons
A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied the city of Gardendale, Ala.'s request to secede from Jefferson County Schools to form its own system.
The...
The N-word
Thinking about the Hoover High School teacher who used the N-word in her classroom last week, which follows the University of Alabama expelling Harley Barber for...
Harley Barber expelled from University of Alabama for racist rants, removed...
University of Alabama (UA) has officially expelled a student for a series of racist video rants that surfaced and went viral Tuesday afternoon.
UA President Stuart Bell confirmed...
“I don’t care if it’s MLK Day (n-word)”: racist video rants...
Officials at the University of Alabama are investigating a student after she recently posted multiple videos on social media where she used the n-word repeatedly among...
National lynching memorial and slavery museum sets open date in Alabama
The original capital of the Confederacy, a city once mired in racism, will soon redefine its legacy when it opens the nation’s first memorial dedicated to lynching...