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AAMU PUBLIC RELATIONS Alabama A&M University welcomed the Class of 2027 at the annual Freshman Convocation and Torch Lighting ceremony Saturday. The largest incoming class in the University’s history consists of over 2,000 students. Keynote […]

By Cody D. Short A project called, ‘10 Million Names’, will work to uncover the names of ten million people of African decent who were enslaved during the 1500s until 1865, in the United States. […]

By Amy Yurkanin  Chelsea Stewart waited on the bench of a north Alabama court in early 2019, holding tight to the big news she hoped might get her out of trouble. Gadsden police had caught Stewart, […]

By Mike Cason The Republican majority in the Alabama Legislature approved a new Congressional district map on Friday, the deadline set by a federal court that ruled the old map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. […]

By Roy S. Johnson This is an opinion column. The kid needed to go to the bathroom. He didn’t care that he and his grandfather were on the steps outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in […]

By John Sharp, al.com (LEFT-RIGHT): Meg McCrummen Fowler, director of the History Museum of Mobile, and Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood speaks during a dedication of the new Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: The Exhibition” […]

By Roy S. Johnson The Supreme Court’s ruling declaring race can no longer be used as a criterion for college admissions was a “shot across the bow, man,” says Charles Barkley. Upon hearing the news on Thursday, the […]

SOURCE: Associated Press Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a controversial theory that would have given state lawmakers un- fettered power to set the rules for federal elections in their states, ruling that […]

By Mike Cason  Alabama is expected to redraw its congressional districts after Thursday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that the map most likely violates the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, affirmed […]

By Roy S. Johnson  On Monday, just over two years since Alabama became the 37th state to legalize medical marijuana, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission will award licenses to grow, process, test, transport, and dispense the drug in the […]