Alabama
U.S. Senate panel to explore racial profiling in Alabama, Arizona
Alabama’s immigration law will be the subject of a U.S. Senate hearing next week about ending racial profiling in law enforcement. A witness list for the April 17 hearing has not been released, but the announcement specifically mentions Alabama’s immigration law. The hearing “will explore how profiling harms law enforcement and the different faces of [...]
Oscar winner Octavia Spencer honored in hometown
Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer promised Alabama fans Wednesday that she would do everything possible to make sure some of her future movies are made in her home state. Spencer, who won this year’s best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as the maid “Minnie” in “The Help,” told the crowd in Montgomery that her home [...]
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks out against Alabama’s immigration law
As voters go to the polls today in Alabama, a new civil rights movement is brewing the southern state that passed one of the strictest immigration laws in the nation last year. The Rev. Jesse Jackson has openly criticized the immigration law as “disgraceful and unnecessary,” according to CBS8 News in Montgomery. Rev. Jackson was [...]
Selma march to Alabama capital relaunched with new spirit, purpose
Sometimes singing old civil rights songs and led by a mix of old and younger civil rights activists, several thousand protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge Sunday, beginning a trek that will take them to Montgomery — again. Some 47 years ago, on March 7, 1965, marchers crossed the same bridge on the way [...]
Selma to Montgomery march planned over immigration law
Organizers calling theirs the “second” Selma to Montgomery march are taking the 47th anniversary of the original event to march more than 50 miles in protest of Alabama’s voter ID and immigration laws. Members of sponsor groups said in a Wednesday news conference that they want to bring national attention to what they see as [...]
