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Red America’s Compassion Fatigue: A Report From Mobile, Alabama

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“But what, I wondered, about people living in red America who have embraced immunity? In the national battle over vaccination, their voices have largely been drowned out.”

Posted inCrime, Highlight, investigations, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Alabama “Corrections” System: An American Horror Story

by Krista Stevens November 15, 2019October 19, 2022

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

Posted inCulture, History, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How One Alabama Sherriff Worked Openly to Oppress People of Color

by Aaron Gilbreath December 5, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Quotes

Alabama’s History Haunts, But It Also Instructs

by Danielle Jackson June 26, 2018October 19, 2022

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

Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Uncategorized

We’re All Alabama Now

by Bob Moser December 14, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton

by Lance Warren October 13, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Weighing Justice With a Jury of Her ‘Peers’

by Susana Morris September 8, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Weighing Justice With a Jury of Her ‘Peers’

by Susana Morris September 8, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick

Weighing Justice With a Jury of Her ‘Peers’

by Sari Botton September 8, 2017October 19, 2022

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

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

A Step Back for The Civil Rights Movement

by heymarkarms August 19, 2014October 19, 2022

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 […]

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