Tag: Alabama

“When you lay down to go to sleep, you better be prayed up, because there’s no guarantee you’re waking up.”

Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.

The hope and future of the United States is bound to Alabama’s.

Alabama, it turns out, isn’t an American outlier after all.

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.

While serving as foreperson on a grand jury, Susana Morris confronts power and privilege in the criminal justice system.

Over the next three decades, Hank Sanders became a fixture in the statehouse, ascending to the chairmanship of the Senate’s Finance and Taxation Education Committee. From his expansive office just off the Senate floor, he controlled Alabama’s Education Trust Fund, the largest operating budget in state government. Sanders tried to exercise his power to represent […]

Maybe it wasn’t just Nelle’s insecurity that held her back from becoming “the Jane Austen of South Alabama,” but also the dismaying decline of the “small-town middle-class” idyll she’d staked her career on documenting. She had, after all, written a historical novel. To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed not in Monroeville but on an L.A. lot. There […]