Tag: Martin Luther King Jr
TV station donates thousands of items to Alabama Archives
A television station has donated thousands of items including historic footage from the civil rights era to the Alabama Department of Archives...
Alabama city adds Juneteenth as holiday for its employees
An Alabama city is giving its employees an additional paid holiday after its City Council voted to recognize Juneteenth.
Alabama city’s planning commission OKs renaming street
A city planning commission in Alabama’s capital city has unanimously passed a recommendation to rename one of its streets for a civil...
Beyond D.C. partisanship, Raphael Warnock makes broad pitch in Georgia
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Raphael Warnock assails Republicans’ push for tighter voting rules as “Jim Crow in new clothes,” while his campaign...
GOP filibuster blocks Democrats’ big voting rights bill
The Democrats' sweeping attempt to rewrite U.S. election and voting law suffered a major setback in the Senate Tuesday, blocked by a...
Paul DeMarco: Push to ban critical race theory from being taught...
The debate over critical race theory has swept the nation and has become a contentious issue at school board meetings in almost...
Congress approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday; Mo Brooks...
The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the nation.
The House voted 415-14 Wednesday...
Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites
The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn’t happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping...
Alabama, Mississippi mark Confederate Memorial Day
State offices were closed Monday in Alabama and Mississippi for Confederate Memorial Day, which a watchdog group used to call for the...
States declare emergencies, close capitols ahead of rallies
Responding to warnings of potentially violent demonstrations, governors across the nation are calling out National Guard troops, declaring states of emergency and...
