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Residents of a city in Alabama are pushing back against what they call sexually explicit books being shelved in areas ...
Recent federal court rulings in Arkansas and Iowa have blocked similar book restrictions, potentially setting precedent for ...
The legacy of America’s Anti-literacy Laws will come back as the push to eradicate all traces of DEI marches on, writer says.
State library board chairman says compliance with code on "sexually explicit" materials is mandatory, while Fairhope library ...
Every fourth Monday in April is celebrated as Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, according to WHNT. That means today, April ...
Two majority Black cities in Alabama now have Black representation in Congress because of court-ordered redistricting. The ...
The Trump Administration wants us to believe that somehow trying to integrate Black people into society hurts the white ...
Alabama A&M University is celebrating 150 years on the Hill! The university’s Black Tie Scholarship gala launched the first ...
The Alabama Slave Code of 1833 made it illegal to teach any enslaved African or free person of color to spell, read or write. There are a wide variety of benefits to gaining an education ...
South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.
Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell ... “My family has been in Lowndes County since slavery,” Flowers said. “It’s home for people. Why would we want to move? That’s where our people are buried.” ...
This would create a total ban on slavery in the state. Similar penal exception clauses exist in fourteen other states. In the past ten years, a few states, including Alabama, Colorado, and ...