Alabama

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August 13, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state panel has proposed striking segregationist language from Alabama's 1901 constitution that mandates separate schools…
August 13, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has said where he wants to serve time for illegally spending $750,000…
July 23, 2013
VIDEO - A young mother lost the ashes of her recently deceased baby when the purse she was carrying them…
June 26, 2013
COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) - Much has changed in Shelby County since Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to protect…
June 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until…
June 12, 2013
VIDEO - Fifty years ago, on June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium,…
June 10, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — It feels like Birmingham finally is emerging from the shadows cast by the ugly racial violence…
May 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The children were murdered when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded at the 16th Street Baptist…
April 10, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a notorious 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls is…
April 4, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature has voted to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, more than 80 years after the…
March 28, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama House leader says a black lawmaker will not face punishment for referring in an…
March 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The location is one of 13 new sites to receive federal recognition, including the home of Uncle…
February 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus…
February 5, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they…
January 30, 2013
MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (AP) - Police teams swarmed a rural U.S. property Wednesday where a man accused of fatally shooting…
January 8, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - About 10,000 admirers immediately followed the former Miss Alabama on Twitter. Among those admirers is Arizona Cardinals…
December 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Just four days after announcing his retirement from stand up comedy on a street corner in Seattle,…
November 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Former Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley wrote a short and direct letter to the Ku Klux…
November 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - An interactive map tracks the most hateful tweets following President Barack Obama's re-election...
November 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Alabama voters turned down an amendment to the state's constitution in Tuesday's elections that would have removed…