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MOBILE, Alabama Critics challenging Alabama’s design of its congressional districts want the Supreme Court to make its legislature create a second “black-majority” district (among Alabama’s seven districts total) by breaking up coastal Mobile County in the state’s southwest corner and joining its most heavily black neighborhoods with black areas all the way over on the eastern end of the state, near Georgia. ....
Longtime residents of the Mobile community called ``Africatown USA'' recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States tending gardens, running businesses and filling churches. Today, much of the place is a dilapidated landscape of empty lots and ramshackle, vacant homes. ....
This Holey Shoe From 1965 Is Part Of Alabama's Voting Rights History thefederalist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thefederalist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Slave ship Clotilda at 161: State holiday request, tourism push mark critical date for Africatown msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alabama House Democrats push for more police and criminal justice reform after Chauvin verdict Updated 2:53 PM; Today 2:53 PM Montgomery police officers hold signs showing support for protesters at a Justice for George Floyd event last year at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. (Mike Cason/[email protected]) Facebook Share Law enforcement accountability remains a top concern for Alabama Democrats heading into the final weeks of this year’s legislative session. But for Democrats, long saddled with superminority status in the Alabama statehouse, even small victories on issues of criminal justice reform are worth celebrating. On the day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three charges related to the murder of George Floyd, Alabama Democrats said they will continue rolling out bills aimed at holding police accountable even if major reforms, such as restricting qualified immunity for police, has an uphill ....