Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, died Wednesday. She was 92. University officials announced her death in a statement. Her daughter, Angela Foster Dickerson, said her mother died Wednesday morning and said a family statement would be released. Foster in 1956 briefly attended classes at the then all-white […]
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On Jan. 23, 1957, Willie Edwards Jr. was murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Montgomery, Alabama. Edwards, 24, at the time was kidnapped from his delivery truck and forced to jump to his death from a bridge. It all started when Edwards was eating dinner with his family, when he got a […]
James Alexander Hood was the first Black American male student to register and attend classes at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, a previously all-white institution. Hood was born on November 10, 1942 in Gadsden, Alabama, to Octavie Hood and Margaret Hughes Hood. Hood a graduate of Carver High School in Tuscaloosa originally attended Atlanta’s […]
Jefferson County Judge Nakita Blocton, , “engaged in a pattern and practice of making inappropriate comments – for example, calling one judge ‘Uncle Tom’ and another judge a ‘fat b****’ and calling an employee a heifer.” According to Law & Crime, the Yellowhammer State’s Judicial Inquiry Commission based on a complaint filed. The commission discovered that Blocton […]
The state of Alabama, which requires a photo ID to vote, announced this week that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties where 75 percent of registered voters are black. Due to budget cuts, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said that 31 satellite DMV offices would no longer have access to driver’s licenses examiners, meaning […]
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A former University of Alabama track star and Olympian was killed in a shootout with another man, authorities say. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Monday identified Emmit King and Willie Albert Wells as the two men who died after exchanging gunfire in Bessemer on Sunday, AL.com reported. King, 62, was a […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., whose convictions remain on the books in Alabama’s capital. […]
Christina Nance was found last week in an unused police van in a Huntsville, Ala. police parking lot. Her family say they aren’t accepting a recent autopsy report that said there was no foul play in her death. The family plans to have a private autopsy performed on Nace, according to Fox 54. As of now, […]
An Alabama mom was arrested on assault and other charges after she got into a fight with an 11-year-old on a school bus. The altercation was captured on video and later shared on social media according to NBC News. The incident took place around 7:18 a.m. on Tuesday in Center Point, which apporx. 14 miles northeast […]