Alabama
Rev. Barber to Alabama union backers: ‘Bessemer is the new Selma’
March 24, 2021Civil rights leader brings the Poor People’s Campaign to a mass rally for unionizing 5,805 workers at Amazon’s giant shipping warehouse.
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Montgomery, Alabama has first Black mayor in its two-century history
October 11, 2019A historic election victory in Alabama this week shows that the “worst of times” in American politics can, if the people rise up, also become the “best of times.”
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Saga of 1930s Alabama Communists has lessons for today
August 26, 2019Activists today need to understand that they are building on a long and powerful heritage of working-class and anti-racist organization and struggle in this country.
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Alabama governor says God backs the attack on women’s rights
May 17, 2019Alabama’s Republican governor has signed the most stringent abortion legislation in the nation, making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases.
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Girls basketball player remains benched for $857.20 check
January 8, 2019"This was for USA Basketball. It’s the next thing to the Olympics. That’s the road you travel to the Olympics and they turn around and Alabama decides they will supersede that decision?”
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