Spearheaded by Civil Rights activist and host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, Rev. Al Sharpton, the recreation of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to protest voter suppression laws begins today. RELATED: Rev. Al Sharpton To Appear In April Issue of Vanity Fair The march was organized by the National Action Network, who partnered with […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama teacher who accepts a Christmas ham or a $25 gift card from a student is breaking Alabama’s ethics law. The possible penalty? Up to a year in jail and a $6,000 fine for the teacher who accepts the gift. SEE ALSO: How Jerry Sandusky Played The New York Times Worst […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-24-year-old, Rocrast Mack, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard. Mack was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old. The Huffington Post reports: Severely overcrowded, underfunded […]
Police in Alabama arrested an 81-year-old woman they suspect of selling crack from her Prichard, Alabama home. Police say Ola Mae Robinson has a long history of drug dealing and has yet to learn her lesson. Robinson was also arrested this past June on possession and distribution charges. “Wish I was [selling crack], ’cause then I’d […]
MOUNTAIN CREEK, Ala. — The last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Despite fire-and-brimstone opposition to taxes among many in a state that still has “Heart of Dixie” on […]
MOBILE, ALABAMA — An Alabama Reverend and his wife have been arrested and charged with drug distribution and possession. Fox Mobile reports: A two month long undercover drug investigation by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office has led to the arrest of a pastor, James A. Hunter, and his wife, Sylvia Hunter, with Forever Flowing Ministries. […]
ALABAMA — Almost three weeks after the first round of tornadoes swept across the mid-west, a dog that suffered two broken legs in the storms crawled back home to his owners. Although no one is exactly sure how far the injured animal had to crawl, the extent of damage to his legs was so severe […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Montgomery’s former Greyhound Bus Station is reopening as a museum honoring the Freedom Riders on the 50th anniversary of the day they were attacked in Alabama’s capital city. Several of the original Freedom Riders are attending the dedication Friday. One of them, Jim Zwerg of Tucson, Ariz., says the new museum is […]
ALABAMA– After five states were hit with a total of 35 tornadoes in one week, one of the nation’s deadliest tornadoes of recent years hit Alabama Wednesday, leaving the state death toll at 236.
PRATT CITY, Ala. — Church groups, students and other volunteers worked aggressively Saturday to bring food, water and other necessities to communities ravaged by the second-deadliest day of tornadoes in history. Across the South, volunteers have been pitching in as the death toll from Wednesday’s storms keeps rising. At least 340 people were killed across […]
ATLANTA — Patty Bullion said the first thing she found floating into her Alabama yard after a fierce storm passed was a pregnant woman’s ultrasound photo. Family photos, pages from church hymnals and other scraps of strangers’ memories fell like a paper rain outside Bullion’s home in the small town of Lester on Wednesday night, […]
TUSCALOOSA — Survivors of the deadliest tornado outbreak since the Great Depression struggled to begin rebuilding their lives in the wind-wrecked landscape Friday, enduring blackouts and waiting in long lines for gas as their remaining possessions lay hidden in the rubble. President Barack Obama arrived in devastated Alabama to console victims whose emergency safety net […]
