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Whether you're looking for a heavy dive into our nation's history, or simply a romp that takes place on Fourth of July ...
From pig ears to "white sauce" to the legendary ribs that fed the civil rights movement, Alabama has a diverse and tangy culinary history. Here are the best places to get a taste.
Opinion: Immigration attorneys Abhinav Tripathi and Rachaita Saha assess how President Donald Trump's deployment of troops to ...
(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...
In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...
A federal appeals court will decide Tuesday whether California can block President Donald Trump from taking over the National Guard.
Deep-cut case law and 19th century constitutional interpretation underpin the Trump administration argument for deploying ...
With migrant communities already living in fear amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, ICE raids in downtown ...
In Trump’s reality show presidency, strength and power are defined by a public and excessive show of force and pageantry is a means of reinforcing control.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Fifty years have passed since the day Donald Williams' life as an African-American growing up in Montgomery changed forever. Bringing change has been an uphill battle to ...
James ‘Spider’ Martin Spider Martin (American, 1939-2003), Selma to Montgomery March, 1965. Collection of Doug McCraw (copyright), 2024 Spider Martin. Spider Martin Foundation ...
March 7, 1965 – About 600 people begin a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Lewis and Hosea Williams. Marchers demand an end to discrimination in voter registration.