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The North Huntsville Community United For Action (NHCUA) Announces Black Elected Officials Vaccine Campaign

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PRESS RELEASE Huntsville, AL – You will see several familiar faces in Huntsville Hospital’s newest campaign to encourage the community to get educated about COVID-19 vaccinations. Black elected leaders from North Huntsville showed unity as […]

LOCAL WWII VETERAN RECEIVES COVID VACCINE

February 26, 2021 Bouldin 0

Story and photos by Robert Drake John A. Drake, Sr. of Harvest originally balked at taking the COVID vaccine. Like many others he’d heard about all the alleged side effects; some legitimate, some unvalidated, so […]

Black History

ALABAMA ATTORNEY FRED GRAY LOOKS BACK ON LIFE OF ‘DESTROYING EVERY- THING SEGREGATED’

February 26, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Chuck Chandler Few people can say they knew Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks when that internationally celebrated pair were average citizens. Fred Gray can. The 90-year-old legendary civil rights lawyer has known […]

THE COVID-19 VACCINATION: TO HAVE OR NOT TO HAVE

February 26, 2021 Bouldin 0

Submitted by Phyllis Jones, SON Sr. Staff Writer In a few short weeks, it will be one year since life as we knew it took a major shift. For some of us, it will be […]

ELIZABETH KECKLEY, THIRTY YEARS A SLAVE,FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE

February 26, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire A Black woman’s memoir published 153 years ago still tops Amazon’s books sales chart. “Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House,” […]

CELEBRATE & EDUCATE: Alabama Black History Stories

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FORMER JOHNSON HIGH GRADUATE WRITES BOOK OF THE YEAR

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PRESS RELEASE The Rev. Canon Dr. Esau McCaulley, Jr is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and a 1996 graduate of J.O. Johnson High School. He is the son of Rev. Laurie Bone McCaulley and the […]

Actor Danny Glover comes to Bessemer to show support for Amazon union push

February 26, 2021 Bouldin 0

By William Thornton | wthornton@al.com “How you doin’?” asked the tall, lean stranger behind the pale blue surgical mask. He was standing outside the main entrance to Amazon’s Bessemer fulfillment center this afternoon, holding a sign […]

TAYLOR’S CHAPEL CELEBRATES 117TH CHURCH ANNIVERSARY – A BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION

February 26, 2021 Bouldin 0

The history Of Taylor’s Chapel Primitive Baptist Church goes back to the ending of the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the early twentieth century. It is a history that affirms the dreams of […]

OBITUARIES 2/24-3/2/2021

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Royal Funeral Home MRS. CHERIE HOLMES CRUTCHER MAY 12, 1939 – FEBRUARY 20, 2021 Graveside service will be 12:00 noon, Saturday , February 27, 2021 at Meadowlawn Garden of Peace (450 Mount Lebanon Road Toney, […]