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Alabama

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Survivor of 1963 '4 Little Girls' church bombing seeks funds

Jay Reeves, Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a notorious 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls is seeking millions in compensation and says she won't accept a top congressional award to honor the victims...
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FILE - In this July 26, 1937 file photo, New York attorney Samuel Leibowitz, center, stands in his office in New York with four of the "Scottsboro Boys," from left, Willie Robertson, Eugene Williams, Roy Wright, and Olen Montgomery. Levin is credited with saving from death all but one of the nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women in 1931. In a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday, April 4, 2013 to give posthumous pardons to the "Scottsboro Boys". (AP Photo, File)

Ala. legislature votes to pardon Scottsboro Boys

Bob Johnson and Jesse Washington, Asociated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature has voted to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, more than 80 years after the nine young black men were convicted by all-white juries of raping two white women...
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Ala. rep shocks colleagues with slavery remarks

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama House leader says a black lawmaker will not face punishment for referring in an email to a white constituent's ancestors as incestuous slave owners...
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Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) marches with a crowd across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 1965 Bloody Sunday Voting Rights March March 4, 2007 in Selma, Alabama. During the 1965 march, which was to go from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, police used tear gas and beat back the marchers when they reached the Pettus Bridge. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

'Bloody Sunday' bridge named national landmark

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theGRIO REPORT - The location is one of 13 new sites to receive federal recognition, including the home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harrier Beecher Stowe and Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson N.J., which once served as a home-field to Negro League baseball teams...
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Statue honoring the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rosa Parks statue unveiled at Capitol

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family.
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The cast of 'The Scottsboro Boys' performs on stage during the 65th Annual Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Alabama legislation would exonerate Scottsboro Boys

Phillip Rawls, Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they were gang-raped...
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In this Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 photo, residents look over the school bus where a shooting occurred near Destiny Church along U.S. 231, just north of Midland City, Ala. on Tuesday. Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were at a rural property where a man was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker Wednesday, HAN 30, 2013 after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said. The man boarded the stopped school bus in the town of Midland City on Tuesday afternoon and shot the driver when he refused to let the child off the bus. The bus driver died. (AP Photo/The Dothan Eagle, Danny Tindell)

Standoff: Man shoots Alabama bus driver, takes child

Associated Press
MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (AP) - Police teams swarmed a rural U.S. property Wednesday where a man accused of fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old passenger was thought to be hiding in a homemade bunker...
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Defensive tackle Darnell Dockett #90 of the Arizona Cardinals watches from the sidelines during the NFL game against the Detroit Lions at the University of Phoenix Stadium on December 16, 2012 in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals defeated the Lions 38-10. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

NFL player tweets AJ McCarron's girlfriend his phone number

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - About 10,000 admirers immediately followed the former Miss Alabama on Twitter. Among those admirers is Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Darnell Dockett...
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Comedian Katt Williams poses at the 'Comic Relief 2006' show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace November 18, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The benefit was held to help families in the Gulf Coast affected by Hurricane Katrina. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

'Katt Williams is definitely not retiring,' reps say

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - Just four days after announcing his retirement from stand up comedy on a street corner in Seattle, comedian Katt Williams is changing his tune, according to TMZ...
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Bill Baxley (Letter of Note)

Ex-Ala. Attorney General's 'kiss my a**' letter to the KKK goes viral

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - Former Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley wrote a short and direct letter to the Ku Klux Klan back in 1970 after receiving a threatening letter of protest...
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