Appeals court judges expressed concern Thursday about whether to overrule Congress’ determination that some southern states and other jurisdictions still must have federal election monitoring to protect minority voting rights.
Alabama’s Shelby County is challenging a requirement under the Voting Rights Act that governments with a history of discrimination obtain federal approval to change even minor [...]
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management faces a civil rights complaint for permitting a landfill to take coal ash spilled three years ago in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston disaster in eastern Tennessee.
The operation of the Arrowhead Landfill in rural Perry County, Ala. “has the effect of adversely and disparately impacting African-American residents in the [...]
Hundreds of advocates for immigrants who gathered outside Alabama’s state Capitol are calling for the repeal of a controversial law that they say harkens back to the state’s segregationist past.
Protesters on Saturday waved signs saying “One Family One Alabama” on the statehouse grounds before marching to the governor’s mansion.
The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the immigration law [...]
Immigrant and civil rights leaders will rally and march on Saturday to repeal HB56. The ‘One Family, One Alabama: HB56 Hurts All Alabamians’ march and rally will begin at 11 a.m. from the Capital steps, followed by a march led by children to Gov. Bentley’s mansion. The participants will call for an end to racial [...]
Anniston Star
- Danny Hubbard wants all the marbles.
Last November, Hubbard’s party won control of the Alabama State Legislature for the first time in 136 years. Republicans have a supermajority in both houses, and they hold all the statewide constitutional offices.
But Hubbard, chairman of the Talladega County GOP, isn’t satisfied. He wants black voters to go [...]
