How many topics can you fit into a 20-minute talk with Ta-Nehisi Coates? On a recent Thursday afternoon, ahead of a trip Coates will make to Alabama to receive a major literary award, I was about to ...

Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in ...

MOBILE, Alabama — In the Alabama redistricting case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 4, the liberal justices made false assertions in obvious search of misguided conclusions that would ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — What the Alabama Constitution says on school segregation: From 1901 to 1956: “The legislature shall establish, organize, and maintain a liberal system of public schools ...

A split between two branches of the pro segregation White Citizens Councils here in which anti-Semitism figures has been widened. Each of the groups announced separate mass meetings to be held here.

A sunset over the Denny Chimes on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Thursday June 20, 2024. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights said Friday that UA was ...

Montgomery, Ala., touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept 17 (Reuters) - Alabama, one of two U.S. states that segregate inmates with HIV from the rest of their prison population, will seek to defend the policy against a class action ...

A Montgomery Juvenile Court judge has expunged Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest for challenging segregation on the city's bus lines, an act that preceded Rosa Parks' similar challenge by nine months.

The "Season of Change: 1963" series by AL.com's Education Lab examines milestones of civil rights and education in Alabama -- and how they impact schools and society today. Willie Wyatt Jr. had dreams ...

On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...