Obama Returns to Alabama As President for Selma50 Anniversary
The former Senator from Chicago, IL, who crossed Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge as a presidential candidate in March 2007 will return to Alabama in March 2015 as the sitting 44th President of the United...
Voting Matters: Politics, the Mid-Term and the Next 50 Years
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, born out of the blood, sweat, tears and lives of thousands of Americans citizens who marched across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge en...
Obama’s Selma Speech To Invoke Continuing Obligation to the Freedom Struggle
Later this week President Barack Obama will likely invoke America's civil rights struggles from past to present during his visit to Selma on Saturday.
The nation's first Black president plans a speech from the Edmund...
Moral Monday: Anatomy of a 21st-Century Movement
Listening to Rev. William Barber II is like a lesson in ancient theology applied to 21st century life. It sounds old, yet feels new. It echoes an ancient struggle between good and evil, though,...
NAACP LDF Discusses Restoring the Voting Rights Act at Selma Jubilee
(Compiled from media reports) -- Attorney Ryan Haygood, Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Political Participation Group, will hold a workshop during the Selma Jubilee weekend on the latest developments in the efforts...
Sharpton’s Network Opens “Freedom Summer” Office In Birmingham
Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and his partners announce the grand opening of the new Freedom Summer National Headquarters in Birmingham to revive the spirit of Freedom Summer 1964 and voting rights, particularly...
Langford Lays Out His Agenda to the City Council
Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, in one of his first official acts with the City Council, gave them his plan to “do something.”
He personally handed Council members a broad-ranging proposal that would pay for...
City Council Passes Minority Inclusion Ordinance
The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed an ordinance that makes minority inclusion a necessary part of every municipal request for proposals and all city-awarded contracts.City Councilor Steven Hoyt, who has made...
City Council Green-Lights Fair Park Plan
Birmingham City Councilors gave Mayor Larry Langford a collective nod to move forward on a multi-million dollar plan to overhaul Fair Park, and potentially jump start redevelopment in the oft-neglected west side of...
Mayoral Forum at Workplay Elicits Laughter, Concern
Willis “Mickey Mouse” Hendrix got the biggest laugh from the WorkPlay audience at Tuesday night’s mayoral forum when he said Birmingham’s citizens needed to stop running to City Hall, begging elected officials to...
