Alabama

Unions help towns in tornado aftermath

May 26, 2011 By Blake Skylar

"I've been in the labor movement since 1998, and seeing more than 150 of my union brothers and sisters come together to help one another and their communities is the proudest moment of my life."

Obama visits storm torn Alabama, orders federal help

April 29, 2011 By John Wojcik

President Obama on April 29 rushed to towns in Alabama slammed hardest by tornadoes.

Coming to terms with the Confederacy

January 18, 2011 By Mark Potok

Some groups want to remember the Confederacy "the right way." Whatever can they mean?

“Secession balls” in 2010?

December 3, 2010 By Norman Markowitz

There were two stories about the beginnings of the Civil War this week: Georgia acknowledges slavery, while neo-Confederates ignore it.

RENEW VOTING RIGHTS!

March 11, 2005 By Joyce Wheeler And Tim Wheeler

40 years after Bloody Sunday, 10,000 march in Selma SELMA, Ala. — Singing “Ain’t going to let nobody turn me round,” 10,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge here March 6 to protest Bush-Cheney voter suppression...