The holiday shopping frenzy has officially begun with the five-day stretch that starts on Thanksgiving and crosses the finish line Cyber Monday. And in the age of Amazon, retailers are increasingly turning to tech to make shopping, whether online or in an actual store, as quick and simple as possible. This year marks the first […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) deemed President Obama the most "racially divisive president since slavery."

Birmingham, Ala. Mayor William Bell and Councilman Marcus Lundy were involved in a fistfight during a city council meeting on Tuesday morning.

On this day in history, an ordinary woman made a courageous decision that had extraordinary results. 60 years ago, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks…

A town in Alabama may no longer get to sag their jeans or wear fitted skirts–after one official received a sign from God telling him…

Kindra Chapman found dead in a jail cell. Right after Sandra Bland's death. pic.twitter.com/h1rPr1cCOF — Yaphet Kotto (@Darius34092338) July 25, 2015 The family of an…

You may have read my recent post about the governor of Alabama ordering the Confederate flag taken down from where it had flown over a memorial on the Alabama capitol grounds. His action, of course, comes on the heels of the Charleston Massacre, committed by an avowed white supremacist who, like many others, used the […]

Two police officers in Anniston, Alabama have been placed on administrative leave over allegations that they belong to a hate group, according to AL.com. Lt.…

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On Friday, Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of prison a free man after spending 30 years on death row for a crime he did not…

  Fifty years after Alabama troopers savagely attacked demonstrators protesting discriminatory practices that kept black voters from the polls, thousands of people gathered here Sunday…

Dottie Peoples is an international gospel singer. Born Dorthy Peoples in 1950 in Dayton, Ohio, After completing high school, she toured with gospel pioneer Dorothy Norwood. She is One of 10 children, Peoples grew up in Ohio, but spent summers in Alabama with her grandmother who everyone lovingly referred to as Big Mama. She encouraged […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-24-year-old, Rocrast Mack, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard. Mack was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old. The Huffington Post reports: Severely overcrowded, underfunded […]