Black Voters Matter redoubles its efforts amid wave of GOP attacks on voting rights
In the South, Black Voters Matter has become the powerful heart of an ecosystem of community-based organizations.
By Associated Press - June 05, 2021In the South, Black Voters Matter has become the powerful heart of an ecosystem of community-based organizations.
By Associated Press - June 05, 2021Campsites used by voting rights marchers in 1965 need immediate attention or risk being lost, according to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation.
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is proposing legislation regulating investment in private companies.
By Oliver Willis - May 18, 2021Historian Douglas Brinkley said, ‘It’s impossible to keep politics out of science. But you can do your best to mitigate it.’
By Associated Press - May 10, 2021Amazon has a history of crushing unionizing efforts at its warehouses and its Whole Foods grocery stores.
By Associated Press - March 29, 2021Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks falsely claimed Joe Biden’s presidential win resulted from ‘election theft.’
By Oliver Willis - March 23, 2021These right-wing organizations have long records of crafting anti-LGBTQ legislation.
By Casey Quinlan - February 17, 2021‘Radical unconditional love for all children should be at the forefront of any decision,’ said a Tennessee mother.
By Casey Quinlan - February 15, 2021Policy experts say the bill is ‘particularly draconian and cruel’ to transgender youth.
By Casey Quinlan - February 09, 2021Editorial boards around the country are responding to last week’s deadly coup attempt.
By Josh Israel - January 11, 2021The Trump administration has three more executions scheduled ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
By Associated Press - December 16, 2020Maternal mortality is sky-high in Alabama — and it’s mostly preventable.
By Lisa Needham - December 03, 2020Tax records indicate Tommy Tuberville’s foundation to aid veterans is keeping most of the money it receives.
By Tana Ganeva - October 19, 2020Three Republicans are challenging some of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress.
By Casey Quinlan - September 21, 2020He said didn’t want unemployed workers to ‘get used to all this.’
By Oliver Willis - August 05, 2020Alabama’s top lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to support voter suppression efforts during a pandemic.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 01, 2020The GOP attorneys general want lawmakers’ ‘assistance in tempering the anti-police rhetoric that is jeopardizing the safety of our officers.’
By Josh Israel - June 25, 2020Tommy Tuberville and his wife own more than $30,000 worth of stock in pharmaceutical companies that have been sued over opioid distribution.
By Josh Israel - June 22, 2020‘Richmond is no longer the capital of the Confederacy,’ said the city’s mayor.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 05, 2020Many Republican-led states want workers to choose between their health and unemployment benefits.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 04, 2020Democrats said it was ‘unconscionable that the legislature would spend the people’s money, meant to address the incredible hardships this pandemic has wrought on our workers, families, and state, on pork and pet projects.’
By Dan Desai Martin - May 11, 2020John Merrill has claimed requiring a copy of your photo ID to vote absentee makes it ‘easier to vote and harder to cheat.’
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2020Emergency planners, health officials, and forecasters are generally advising people to take their chances with the virus when a tornado is headed their way.
By Associated Press - April 11, 2020Trump has endorsed Sessions’ opponent in the runoff for the GOP Senate nomination in Alabama.
By Josh Israel - April 02, 2020GOP officials are using the pandemic as an opportunity to push their right-wing agenda.
By Lisa Needham - April 02, 2020The bill would also ban abortion at every stage of pregnancy and classify it as murder.
By Emily Singer - January 22, 2020Jeff Sessions, former U.S. senator and attorney general, now says Democrats want to ‘gut our religious freedom.’
By Josh Israel - January 21, 2020The attorneys general of Alabama, Louisiana, and South Dakota are worried ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment might protect women’s reproductive rights.
By Josh Israel - December 20, 2019Kansas joins states like Colorado and Utah in embracing refugees in their states, while citizens in Alabama saw a new statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Montgomery.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 06, 2019Moore has been accused of sexual predation by at least nine women, some of whom claim they were in their teens at the time.
By Josh Israel - November 25, 2019