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Honoring Michael Donald: The Final Recorded Lynching in the United States

February 13, 2024 Bouldin 0

Alabama’s Haunting History and the Pursuit of Justice By Speakin’ Out News Michael Donald, an African-American youth born on July 24, 1961, in Mobile, Alabama, tragically met his end on March 21, 1981, in one […]

Trailblazer Louphenia Thomas: Pioneering Alabama’s Political Landscape and Education Funding

February 13, 2024 Bouldin 0

By Speakin’ Out News Louphenia Thomas made history in 1978 by becoming the first Black woman elected to the Alabama legislature. A Birmingham businesswoman and beautician, she took her oath of office that year, marking […]

Rosa Parks: The Courageous Stand that Ignited a Civil Rights Movement

February 7, 2024 Bouldin 0

Civil Rights pioneer Rosa was born in the town of Tuskegee in Alabama on February 4, 1913. Her mother was a teacher and her father a carpenter, and she had a little brother called Sylvester. After her […]

Products inspired by Gee’s Bend, Alabama, artisans featured at Target stores for Black History Month

February 6, 2024 Bouldin 0

By: Donna Cope Contemporary quilts from Gee’s Bend makers are now on exhibit at the Birmingham Public Library. For more than 200 years, Black women in Boykin, Alabama, also known as Gee’s Bend, have practiced their art: […]

What does Watch Night mean for Black Americans today? It dates back to the Emancipation Proclamation

January 2, 2024 Bouldin 0

By Associated Press Watch Night is still being observed each New Year’s Eve, at many multiracial and predominantly Black churches across the country. The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to […]

Roy S. Johnson: ‘I had to be here,’ Spike Lee says at 16th St bombing remembrance

September 19, 2023 Bouldin 0

By Roy S. Johnson This is an opinion column. “I had to be there.” Of course, he did. Spike Lee had to be there—courtside, or pulpit-side, of course—at the 16th Street Baptist Church for the historic […]

Lost in history, Virgil Ware, 14, was murdered the same day as Birmingham church bombing

September 19, 2023 Bouldin 0

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times This story is republished with permission from The Birmingham Times The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing was not the only tragedy in Birmingham on Sept. 15, 1963. Four girls — […]

Biden to establish national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi

July 25, 2023 Bouldin 0

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused […]

Alabama’s education system was designed to preserve white supremacy. I should know

May 23, 2023 Bouldin 0

A brief history of public education in Alabama: Part II By Guest columnist Kyle Whitmire The United States military understood something a century ago that many folks still don’t get today — there are some […]

Ambushed in Eufaula: Alabama’s forgotten race massacre

February 23, 2023 Bouldin 0

By Kyle Whitmire Come with me. I want to show you what a hole in Alabama history looks like. Downtown Eufaula is postcard pretty. It fits the Hollywood idea of what a small Southern town is […]