Alabama
Court gives low-paid Alabama workers a win for higher pay
August 2, 2018“The federal appeals court’s decision today affirmed state lawmakers discriminated against the city’s predominantly black workforce in stealing away their minimum wage increase."
Read moreGovernment reopens case of Emmett Till, Black youth murdered in 1955
July 12, 2018The Justice Department told Congress in a report it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying after receiving “new information.”
Read moreNew Poor People’s Campaign launches coast to coast in 37 states
May 15, 2018D.C. crowd hears about girl who died because Alabama wouldn’t expand Medicaid.
Read moreMontgomery, Alabama: New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims
April 26, 2018The museum explores the eras of enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow to mass incarceration and modern criminal justice issues that are the focus of the Equal Justice Initiative's legal work. Several of the organization's clients are featured,...
Read moreSteelworkers mobilization in Mobile helped tip Alabama race to Jones
December 14, 2017Mobile was the case study for how a union, working in harness and going door-to-door, can make a difference electorally, even in deep-red Alabama.
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