Tag: Hank Sanders
Bruce Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83
Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, has died. He was 83.
Former...
Group offers churches $6-a-ballot to help people vote early
A group’s offer to pay churches $6 for every person they help to vote early this year does not violate any law...
Arrests at Alabama Capitol protest for Medicaid expansion
Several people, including a former longtime state senator, were arrested Tuesday for attempting to paint “Good Trouble” and “Expand Medicaid” on the...
Renaming Alabama bridge for John Lewis opposed in Selma
Some say renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge for John Lewis, who died Friday, would dishonor local activists who spent years advocating for civil rights before Lewis arrived in town in the 1960s.
Kay Ivey: Alabama must not let guard down on virus precautions
Ivey said it was too soon to predict which closure orders would be lifted.
Numbers show race disparity in Alabama COVID-19 deaths
43% of deaths were African American patients.
Daughter takes over seat of longest serving state senator
For nearly 40 years state Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma was a fixture of the Alabama Statehouse.
Sanders, 76, did not seek re-election last year...
Like father, like daughter: Malika Sanders-Fortier elected to father’s old Senate...
After qualifying to run for re-election earlier this year, Alabama’s longest-serving state senator, Selma-Democrat Hank Sanders decided not to seek a 10th term in office. Recognizing...
Civil Rights activist Faya Rose Toure, wife of State Senator Hank...
Rose Sanders the wife of State Senator Hank Sanders was arrested Monday, July 16. According a report by to Selma Police Chief Spencer Collier,...
Retired Alabama Power vice president still marching from Selma to Montgomery
When former Alabama Power vice president Julian Smith retired in 2008, he continued overseeing fundraising efforts for the Selma to Montgomery March Foundation board.
Born and raised in Selma,...
