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Tragic! Drive-by shooting kills sleeping 6-year-old

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Three people were charged Wednesday in the drive-by shooting death of a 6-year-old Alabama girl who was killed in her bed...
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Student athlete banned from team because of hair braids

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VIDEO - The school officials in Auburn, Ala. are standing by a policy that seems to be racially discriminatory towards basketball players that wear their hair in braids...
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Civil War anniversary celebrations stir race debate

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CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) - In Georgia, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a mock swearing-in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis...
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'Bed Intruder Song' top YouTube video in 2010

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NEW YORK (AP) - 24-year-old Alabama student, Antoine Dodson, gave an angry TV interview about an attempted rape against his younger sister, he became a viral hit...
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6 month sentence in Civil Rights-era murder causes uproar

Melanie Eversley
theGRIO REPORT - Jimmie Lee Jackson was taking part in a peaceful civil rights protest in his hometown of Marion, Ala., when Fowler shot him in the stomach...
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Rosa Parks' political journey didn't begin on the bus

Danielle L. McGuire
OPINION - On this 55th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, perhaps we can finally end the myth of Parks as a simple seamstress...
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Google recognizes Rosa Parks' courageous act

Eilyn Segura
VIDEO - December 1st, 2010 marked the 55th anniversary of the fateful day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger...
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Ex-trooper guilty of '60s shooting fears jail attack

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - James Bonard Fowler, a 77-year-old white man, reports to jail Wednesday to serve a six-month sentence for the fatal shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson...
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No trial for accused in death of civil rights activist

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VIDEO - James Bonard Fowler, 76, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Monday in the half century old murder case of Jimmie Lee Jackson...
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Ala. ex-trooper pleads in civil rights-era slaying

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MARION, Ala. (AP) - The shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson inspired a Selma march that became known as 'Bloody Sunday'...
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