News From A Colorful Perspective
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the most recent high-ranking government official to be outed for wearing blackface in the past. While at Auburn University, she wore coveralls and had “black paint all over her face” while pretending to search for used cigars on the ground in a skit at the…
Jeremy and Gina Miller have been married for 13 years. He is white and she’s Black. They have five children with a sixth on the way, all of whom are homeschooled. The couple describes themselves as deeply religious, according to local news. They both own Local Realty and have dozens…
Montgomery, Alabama’s A Touch of Soul Cafe was preparing for a late night drag show last Saturday when police arrived and told them they had to shut down at midnight, even though the owner, Geri Moss said she believed she could stay open until 2 a.m. According to the Montgomery Advertiser,…
Marshae Jones, who lost her pregnancy when she was shot in the stomach following a fight, was actually charged with manslaughter last week for the death of her child. The case received national attention and there was a public outcry for justice. An Alabama district attorney has now decided to…
Marshae Jones of Birmingham, Ala., was taken into custody on Wednesday after being indicted by a grand jury in the Bessemer division of Jefferson County on a manslaughter charge for the death of her unborn daughter. But Jones didn’t harm her child. She was five months pregnant in December 2018…
Ongoing abortion restrictions in states across the U.S. including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Missouri are resulting in businesses standing up for reproductive health care. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “fetal heartbeat” bill in May that would effectively sentence women to life imprisonment and the death penalty if they chose to have…
Carbon Hill, Ala., is a town of only about 2,000 people roughly 60 miles northwest of Birmingham. The mayor of that tiny town is Mark Chambers – and he has some opinions on the best way to deal with people who are not white Republican conservatives. Chambers posted an (all…
The Alabama House of Representatives got back to the business of criminalizing women’s healthcare on Tuesday night by approving a bill that would give doctors prison sentences if they fail to treat babies “born alive” after an attempted abortion. The bill is now moving to the Alabama Senate. It has…
The season 22 premiere of the kids’ animated series “Arthur” aired this week with an episode showing Mr. Ratburn, the third-grade teacher, marrying his male partner. Alabama is upset about it. Alabama Public Television (APT), the PBS affiliate that normally airs the show, refused to run the episode of Mr….
(Photo credit: ACLU Utah) Today more than 50 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and NARAL Pro-Choice America, are participating in #StopTheBans protests across the United States starting at noon. The planned protests are in almost all 50 states. The rallies come after several states infamously passed draconian so-called “pro-life” bills…
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