This is a guest post by Robert Widell, who is unlucky enough to be my colleague in the history department at the University of Rhode Island, yet still watches Oregon crush Tennessee with me despite his affinity for the Auburn Tigers. His book, Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle is coming out later this […]
Tag: alabama
Just in case you get into any causes of the Civil War discussion during Sunday barbecue with the in-laws or something. Here’s E.S. Dargan’s speech at the Alabama secession convention: I fe
If the students of Hoover, Alabama want the government to provide bus service so they can get to school, they are basically moochers anyway and we don’t need them getting in the way of our freed
Mary Sue McClurkin, a state rep from the fine state of Alabama: Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R) is pushing legislation that would impose restrictions on abortion clinics — a move that she argues is necessary because the procedure is a major surgery that removes the largest “organ” in a woman’s body. “When a […]
Gunman attacks Alabama hospital. Seems to have wounded a couple of people before the police got him. Can we charge terrorist Wayne LaPierre with some crimes here? ….Also, it was clearly Alabama&
Angus Johnston with a provocative post commemorating the 49th anniversary of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. First, the girls who were killed that day weren’t small childr
I had wondered what Alabama would do after a police officer arrested a German auto executive under its draconian new immigration law. Now we know. Faced with backlash over the detainment of two foreign auto employees, two architects of Alabama’s tough immigration law say they are having second thoughts about the law. The Republican attorney […]
It’s pretty depressing that a law intended to oppress brown people has to affect a white person to make headlines, but that’s America. A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after bei
I’m not sure what’s more troublesome here: the fact that Alabama allows county sheriffs to profit from serving meals in their jails, or that it allocates a mere $1.75 per diem to feed them