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Police in Alabama planted drugs and guns on over 1,000 innocent Black men
More than 1,000 Black men in Dothan, Alabama have been falsely accused and criminalized by a group of racist police intent on falsely imprisoning them. The 12 officers, identified as members of a terrorist hate group, routinely planted drugs and weapons on innocent Black men in order to arrest them and deny them due process while depriving them of freedom. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at least a dozen White police offi
Violence persists in Alabama’s prisons
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History Montgomery, Alabama, elects its first African-American mayor
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Montgomery, a city where more than half the population is black and known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected an African American to the highest position in municipal government for the first time in its 200-year history. Steven Reed, the Montgomery County probate judge, on Tuesday, beat television station owner David Woods in a runoff, gaining 32,918 votes to Woods' 16,010 votes, according to incomplete, unofficial returns. Reed will be
chikesia clemons defense attorney: motion for dismissal, prosecutorial misconduct
The attorney defending Chikesia Clemons on misdemeanor charges stemming from her 2018 Waffle House arrest says prosecutors improperly and inaccurately linked a same-day Tennessee restaurant shooting, a move amounting to prosecutorial misconduct. Chikesia Clemons, 25, was arrested after a verbal altercation with Waffle House employee Goldie Mincy, and was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. A video filmed by Clemons’ friend Ms Adams, who was present at the Ap
DA drops manslaughter charge against Marshae Jones
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. —An Alabama district attorney has decided to drop the charges against a woman who was indicted for manslaughter after she lost her fetus when she was shot during a fight. Marshae Jones was arrested June 26 after a grand jury concluded she intentionally caused the death of her fetus by initiating a fight with another woman. Jones was five-months pregnant when she was shot in the stomach in a December altercation. Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District
Alabama Senate passes near-total abortion ban bill
(CNN) Alabama sent the most restrictive abortion bill in the country to date to the governor's desk Tuesday night, with the state's Senate passing legislation that could punish doctors who perform abortions with life in prison. After more than four hours of debate, the Republican-led Senate voted 25-6 to pass HB 314, which would slap doctors with up to 99 years in prison for performing an abortion. The Alabama House passed the bill earlier this month. The state's Republican b
Alabama newspaper editor stripped of honor after calling for KKK to ‘clean out DC’
An Alabama newspaper editor on Tuesday was removed from the University of Southern Mississippi’s journalism Hall of Fame for writing an editorial that called for the Ku Klux Klan to “ride again” to block tax increases. Goodloe Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter in Linden, Ala., was stripped of the honor over the “misguided and dangerous nature of his comments.” “The School of Communication strongly condemns Mr. Sutton’s remarks as they are antithetical to all that
Civil Rights organization rescinds human rights award for Angela Davis after outcry
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has decided not to honor civil rights icon Angela Davis with its human rights awards after complaints poured in asking the organization to reconsider its decision. Davis’ was a crowning symbol of black, bold womanhood in the 1960s and 70s, and a legendary activist, author and scholar. She was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party USA. The award was set to be bestowed upon the legendary activist during the Annual Shut
Alabama State becomes first HBCU to lead Rose Bowl Parade
History was made at the 130th annual Rose Parade when Alabama State University became the first Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to lead the parade. Nationally acclaimed, the Mighty Marching Hornets, led by Dr. James B. Oliver, is one of two HBCU marching bands appearing in the 2019 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. The other is the Florida Agriculture & Mechanical University Marching 100. Both bands join 18 other marching bands at the par
