Alabama
New 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.
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Montgomery, 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,...
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Steelworkers 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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For Lilly Ledbetter, stumping for Doug Jones was personal
December 14, 2017In an exclusive interview with People's World, Ledbetter says experience with sexual harassment was part of her motivation to back Doug Jones.
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Record African-American turnout and women propel Jones victory in Alabama
December 13, 2017The GOP’s attacks on working families and support for candidates like Roy Moore have opened up opportunities for Democrats to win in places they haven’t won in decades.
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