Year: 2018

SELMA, Ala. (AP) – The Selma Board of Education is regaining control of the city’s schools after almost four years of state control. The state board voted Thursday to release the city system from state […]

The Trump administration is encouraging states to require “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients to work or volunteer in order to keep their health insurance coverage. On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is part […]

What in the name of Bull Connor is going on? Within the last few days, three women–let’s be real here; three white women–publicly spewed the vilest, most hateful racial epithet in our dictionary, and they suffered for […]

After every Trump outrage, we go through a similar routine. Trump says or does something that most sane people believe to be over the top; he is roundly condemned; some Republicans shake their heads; masses […]

The death of a woman during pregnancy or after delivery is indeed a tragedy for a family. Unfortunately, more and more pregnant women in the United States die each year due to pregnancy or delivery […]

Recently the AL.com family of newspapers ran a story on the potential discovery of the Clotilda.  For those of us not up to speed on Alabama’s Black History, the Clotilda was the last known slave […]

1. Work in a bipartisan effort with state legislators to codify a standalone criminal provision for hate crimes. The law should be more inclusive and comprehensive, covering hate crimes based on race, religion, ethnicity and national […]

BRIDGEPORT, Alabama (April 9, 2018) – Google executives joined Governor Kay Ivey, Congressman Mo Brooks and state and local officials at a groundbreaking ceremony today to mark the official start of construction on a $600 […]