50 years ago this week, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a host of others, including Congressman John Lewis then a young civil rights activist, led a march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama, the state capital, in a quest for voting rights. The group of marchers was stopped at the Edmund Pettus bridge […]
Alabama could become the 37th state to allow same sex marriage, but it’s not coming without a fight. Listen to the audio player to hear who is keeping Alabama from becoming a thriving place in the latest Jazzy Report. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Listen to the “The D.L. Hughley Show” LIVE weekdays 3-7 p.m. EST! RELATED: How This […]
The state of Alabama is again at the forefront of change in the United States. It’s been reported that a handful of its cities and…
Samuel “Sam” Jones is the first Black mayor of Mobile, Ala. After years of serving in a smaller public office role, Jones took the city’s top job in 2005 before losing an reelection bid in 2013. Jones, a native of the city, gradated from Central High School. He attended college in Jacksonville, Fla., graduating […]
For iPhone: Michael Donald was a 19-year-old Black man in Mobile, Ala. who was the victim of a brutal hate crime in 1981. Donald’s death is largely regarded as the last known lynching in America. Through efforts by civil rights leaders and the FBI, four Ku Klux Klan members were tried were tried. The […]
Members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., have hired lawyers in an effort to oust their longtime pastor, Juan Demetrius McFarland,…
Members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., have hired lawyers in an effort to oust their longtime pastor, Juan Demetrius McFarland,…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company’s warehouses in Alabama, leaving two people dead, police said. The shooter also was killed in the gunfire. Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper told reporters that the gunman was wearing his uniform when he started shooting either in or near […]
Police in Montgomery, Ala. are investigating a theft in which suspects struck the apartment complex that Rosa Parks lived in when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus. Montgomery police Sgt. Denise Barnes revealed to the Associated Press Wednesday that suspects who ripped and stole copper wiring […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman from Alabama says Democrats are engaged in a “war on whites.” Congressman Mo Brooks made his comment on conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham’s program on Monday. He said the Democratic Party claims white people hate everyone else and that it’s part of President Barack Obama’s strategy of dividing […]
An Alabama rapper received jail time for a music video he participated in that allegedly glorifies cop-killing, Al.com reports. SEE ALSO: Hilary Clinton Recalls A Good…
Two Alabama women have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force the state to recognize their out-of-state marriage so they can both be legal parents to their 8-year-old son. The suit filed Wednesday contends that Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage and its refusal to recognize such marriages from other states violates the equal protection clause […]
