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The death of a woman during pregnancy or after delivery is indeed a tragedy for a family. Unfortunately, more and more pregnant women in the United States die each year due to pregnancy or delivery […]

Recently the AL.com family of newspapers ran a story on the potential discovery of the Clotilda.  For those of us not up to speed on Alabama’s Black History, the Clotilda was the last known slave […]

1. Work in a bipartisan effort with state legislators to codify a standalone criminal provision for hate crimes. The law should be more inclusive and comprehensive, covering hate crimes based on race, religion, ethnicity and national […]

BRIDGEPORT, Alabama (April 9, 2018) – Google executives joined Governor Kay Ivey, Congressman Mo Brooks and state and local officials at a groundbreaking ceremony today to mark the official start of construction on a $600 […]

The tragic school shooting in Parkland, Fla., was another terrible moment we’ve shared as a nation. It comes on the heels of so many other senseless, violent events and we can never let ourselves become […]

The 53rd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday Commemoration opened, Sunday, March 4th, with the Annual Martin and Coretta King Beloved Community Unity Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on the campus of Wallace Community College Selma. Dr. James […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s stroke study received a $20 million grant to help look into strokes in the South and among African-Americans. UAB’s Regions for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke […]

REPRINT FROM Blackamericaweb.com On last Wednesday, Concordia College announced that it will be closing its doors permanently at the end of this semester.  Concordia, a private HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in Selma, Ala., has […]

     John Amos Drake, Sr. celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at the Union Chapel M.B. Church Boone-Lacy Fellowship Hall.  Approximately 400 guests attended this event of grandeur!  These well-wishers included […]

“Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society […]