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City’s first Black mayor says heavily edited leaked audio part of extortion attempt

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Alabama ends automatic review to detect trial errors in death penalty cases

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Driver for 1961 Freedom Riders, Herbert Young, dies

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Alabama HBCU receives grant to limit food insecurity

Alabama State University has been awarded $300,000 to support agricultural studies at the school.  Dr. Michelle Samuel-Foo, an assistant biology

/ February 1, 2022
Civil Rights Icon Claudette Colvin Attempts To Clear Her Legal Record 60 Years Later

Claudette Colvin’s record expunged 66 years after she refused to give bus seat to white person

A judge in Montgomery, Alabama has expunged the juvenile court record of Claudette Colvin, the Black woman who famously refused

/ December 16, 2021
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Byron Allen signs $28.5M purchase agreement for Montgomery Fox affiliate WCOV-TV

Media mogul Byron Allen, who owns theGrio, has signed a purchase agreement to acquire WCOV-TV, a Fox affiliate in Montgomery,

/ December 16, 2021
Protesters Demonstrate In D.C. Against Death Of George Floyd By Police Officer In Minneapolis

Economist wants to assign value to Black women’s overlooked community work

According to Dr. Nina Banks, the new president of the National Economic Association, the community work carried out by Black

/ February 5, 2021
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New statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Alabama on 64th bus boycott anniversary

A brand new bronze statue of civil rights activist Rosa Parks was dedicated in Montgomery Alabama. Steven Reed, Montgomery's first

/ December 2, 2019