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Alabama officials receive complaints about Black History Month as state debates CRT legislation

February 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Trisha Powell Crain As Alabama lawmakers look to take up multiple bills in the coming weeks that would ban divisive concepts associated with critical race theory, Alabama Superintendent Eric Mackey on Wednesday told members of […]

Black History of Health: James Brown

February 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

by Jasmine Browley When James Brown died on Christmas Day 2006 at age 73, officials at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital Midtown cited congestive heart failure as the cause of death. Nearly a decade later, the medical team that […]

Historic Coretta Scott home in Alabama where she wed MLK now forgotten

February 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Jay Reeves, Associated Press Bullet holes pock a rusted mailbox outside the vacant home where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953. Part of the old wooden structure has collapsed, […]

Alabama sets spring game date, plans to honor first Black players

February 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Mike Rodak Alabama will hold its annual “A-Day” spring game on April 16 inside Bryant-Denny Stadium, the school announced Friday. The school’s first Black scholarship athlete, Wilbur Jackson, and its first Black varsity football player, […]

University of Alabama trustees vote to add Autherine Lucy’s name to Graves Hall

February 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Rebecca Griesbach The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees voted Thursday to amend the name of Graves Hall on the UA campus to Lucy-Graves Hall. “Dr. Autherine Lucy Foster is a continuing testament to […]

Alabama officials receive complaints about Black History Month as state debates CRT legislation

February 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: How the Black Church saved Black America

February 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

Political activists — including Malcolm X, of course, but especially the Black Panther Party in the latter half of the 1960s — have debated whether the role of the Black embrace of Christianity under slavery […]

Black History of Health: Frederick Douglass

February 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

by Jade Curtis Frederick Douglass was one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s. Born a slave in Maryland, he quickly learned that God had a much bigger plan for him. After escaping slavery […]

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OP-ED: Top three reasons to invest in Reproductive Justice during Black History Month

February 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

NNPA NEWSWIRE — This Black History Month, give Black women the gift of empowerment by investing in organizations dedicated to Reproductive Justice (RJ). Black women have been at the forefront of every progressive social movement […]

A LISTING OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S NEARLY TWO DOZEN VISITS TO BIRMINGHAM

February 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Ryan Michaels | The Birmingham Times Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Birmingham have been intertwined ever since the Civil Rights leader helped dismantle segregation in a city once known as “Bombingham” for the […]