A new bill that was introduced by the Alabama House of Representatives would require some Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to undergo drug testing or lose their benefits. Currently, drug tests aren’t required to ...
Trayvon Martin would’ve turned 24 on Tuesday but seven years after his death, it’s still open season on Blacks in America, and justice is for white men who shoot them. Emantic Bradford Jr., a 21-year-old ...
Over 1,000 people were in attendance at Boutwell Memorial Auditorium in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday to mourn Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. and demand justice regarding his police-related death. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. accompanied the ...
Ten days of protests continue in Louisiana over crude oil pipeline preparations by residents and activists as big oil business stands to infiltrate and bring deadly toxins into Black communities like St. James — nicknamed ...
Twin sisters Jessica Ann Tyson and Monica Sparks see eye to eye on many topics, but politics isn’t one them. Tyson, a Republican, chose to run for Kent County Commissioner for the 13th district in ...
The University of Alabama alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, a predominantly Black fraternity, is suing after a venue turned them away for being an “all Black group.” The fraternity filed a lawsuit against the ...
A Democratic lawmaker stands behind his comments that Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III wants to “Make America Great Again” by sending the nation decades back to when people didn’t have basic civil rights. “Sessions, ...
The arrest of a 25-year-old Black woman at a Waffle House in Saraland, Ala., resulted in her on the floor with her breasts exposed. Some citizens echoed the acts of protesters of a Philadelphia Starbucks ...
A state representative from Alabama doesn’t believe “lady teachers” should or want to carry firearms. “We don’t need to have a lady teacher in a school that’s got a firearm,” Harry Shiver (R-Stockton) said at ...
A decision by the Alabama Republican Party to bar openly gay Jason White from running for sheriff is just another chapter in the cautionary love story between gay Republicans, their political party and their sexual ...
