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Nat King Cole’s often overlooked role in the Civil Rights Movement

Nat King Cole performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 1960. Ebbe Wrae/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images by Donna M. Cox, University of Dayton Six decades after Nat...

Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation

Oak Park, Montgomery’s first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND by Binita Mahato, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace...

UAW wins big at Volkswagen in Tennessee – becoming the first foreign-owned factory in the American South to unionize

Volkswagen automobile plant employee Kiara Hughes celebrates the union’s win on April 19, 2024. AP Photo/George Walker IV by Bob Bussel, University of Oregon A decisive...

Who can defend voting rights? An appeals court ruling sharply limiting lawsuits looks likely to head to the Supreme Court

by Anthony Michael Kreis, Georgia State University A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government –...

Guest Editorial: A political trifecta? Just about

President Joe Biden Credit: White House/Public Domain photo Zowie, folks—we just received a political trifecta! Joe Biden did something unprecedented when, as the nation’s commander...

Alabama’s defiant new voting map rejected by federal court — after Republicans ignored the Supreme Court’s directive to add a second majority-Black House district

Evan Milligan, plaintiff in an Alabama case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the U.S., speaks outside the U.S. Supreme...

Tommy Tuberville reportedly doesn’t live in Alabama − should he still be its senator?

Alabama voters elected Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Nov. 3, 2020. AP Photo/Butch Dill by Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville has come...

NAACP, Black Leaders demand Congress act on voting rights

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent With voter suppression laws taking shape in Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and just about every GOP-led state...

Trump: Echoes of George Wallace?

ATLANTA (AP) — One presidential candidate pledged to "Stand up for America." Two generations later, another promises to "Make America Great Again." Their common...

Honor roll student suspended because of design in hair

A mother in Alabama is irate that her scholastically gifted 7-year-old son was sent to the principal’s office and initially suspended because the school didn’t approve…

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