Mayor William Bell and the City of Birmingham are pleased to be collaborating with other great southern cities to honor the past and celebrate the future. Mayor William A. Bell, Sr. will join Mayor Harvey Johnson of Jackson, MI; Mayor A. C. Wharton Jr. of Memphis, TN; Mayor Vincent Gray of Washington, DC; Mayor Steve [...]
More than half a dozen states have passed new laws to reduce early voting, setting up a clash with civil rights groups and Democrats who claim the rules could disenfranchise minority voters in the 2012 election for the White House and Congress.
Among states with new restrictions: Wisconsin and Florida, presidential swing states that also are [...]
On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of the community’s white constable.
That McNair was dead, and that Luther Steverson had killed him are about the only [...]
Black lawmakers have lost clout in Southern state capitols as their overwhelming allegiance to the Democratic Party has left them without power in increasingly GOP-controlled state legislatures.
The nonpartisan Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies says in a report issued Friday that despite Barack Obama’s election as president, black voters and elected officials in the [...]
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- The idea of public service is nothing new among Boston African Americans. In 1867, Edwin Walker and Charles Mitchell were elected to the state legislature and became the first black state legislators in the United States. From then until 1902, 13 different black men served at various times in the general court, [...]
