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April 28, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Running on a campaign platform of job creation and economic development, finance attorney Terri Sewell struck a…
April 22, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Senate gave final approval Thursday on a voice vote to a resolution that expresses "deepest…
March 11, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) - The FBI's Cold Case Initiative is investigating the 46-year-old case of a Massachusetts minister who was…
March 7, 2011
SELMA, Alabama (AP) - Thousands of marchers marked the 46th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights confrontation in Selma...
February 20, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - They started at a fountain where slaves were once sold, past the church that Martin Luther…
February 18, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Recent flaps over racially offensive language at the University of Alabama fit a pattern that's dogged…
February 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge Bates' comments came during oral arguments in an Ala. county's lawsuit targeting the law -- one…
January 28, 2011
OPINION - Had Barkley, by no means an angel, chosen to stay the course and run for office, the scrutiny…
January 14, 2011
OPINION - To my parents, Martin Luther King was not some faraway figure on the page of a newspaper or…
January 5, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Three people were charged Wednesday in the drive-by shooting death of a 6-year-old Alabama girl who…
December 16, 2010
VIDEO - The school officials in Auburn, Ala. are standing by a policy that seems to be racially discriminatory towards…
December 13, 2010
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) - In Georgia, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a…
December 13, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - 24-year-old Alabama student, Antoine Dodson, gave an angry TV interview about an attempted rape against his…
December 10, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Jimmie Lee Jackson was taking part in a peaceful civil rights protest in his hometown of Marion,…
December 6, 2010
OPINION - On this 55th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, perhaps we can finally end the myth of Parks…
December 2, 2010
VIDEO - December 1st, 2010 marked the 55th anniversary of the fateful day Rosa Parks refused to give up her…
November 30, 2010
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - James Bonard Fowler, a 77-year-old white man, reports to jail Wednesday to serve a six-month sentence…
November 16, 2010
VIDEO - James Bonard Fowler, 76, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Monday in the half century old murder case of…
November 15, 2010
MARION, Ala. (AP) - The shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson inspired a Selma march that became known as 'Bloody…
November 2, 2010
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Terri Sewell, who is from Selma and practices law in Birmingham, won easily in the heavily…