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The city of Montgomery, Ala., dedicated a statue to civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Sunday afternoon, presented by the city’s first Black mayor, Steven Reed. Sunday was the second annual Rosa Parks Day in Alabama and also marked 64 years to the day Parks was arrested for sitting in…
Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings’ two daughters are supporting their late father’s long-time staffer, Harry Spikes, over Cummings’ second wife and their stepmother, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, to fill the vacant congressional seat left after Cummings’ untimely death in October. “My sister and I are supporting Harry Spikes for Congress because for…
Montgomery, Ala., now has its first Black mayor in history after Steven Reed was sworn into office on Tuesday morning in the city that birthed the civil rights movement. Reed was sworn into office at the Montgomery Performing Arts Centre, the Montgomery Advertiser reported, because so many people wanted to…
George Peck, a Black man lynched more than 100 years ago by a white mob, is being memorialized by the Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project as part of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Peck had been accused but not convicted of attempted assault of a white girl when he was…
A victory for pro-choice advocates was handed down by District Judge Myron Thompson on Tuesday when he blocked the near-total abortion ban from going into effect next month in Alabama. The Human Life Protection Act (HLPA) was set to take effect on Nov. 15 and now a challenge to the…
Montgomery, Ala., a city known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, just elected its first Black mayor, Judge Steven Reed. Montgomery is a majority-black city but had been one of three cities with a population over 100,000 in the Deep South that had never elected a Black mayor,…
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…