Recent federal court rulings in Arkansas and Iowa have blocked similar book restrictions, potentially setting precedent for ...

Fairhope library board members determined "Sold" and "Grown" don't contain obscene material, while state officials previously ...

The Alabama House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday, a day commemorating the emancipation of the last remaining slaves in the U.S., though the ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - The bill to make Juneteenth a state holiday in Alabama is one step closer to passing as it has successfully advanced through the House. District 85 Representative Rick Rehm ...

Her plea was not new. For over a century, the “duty to remember” has guided progressive politics. Leftists have exhorted that ...

The state bought the land from local farmers, drew up an impressive grid of streets, and started selling lots. By 1820, Cahawba was Alabama’s first permanent capital city, with lawmakers meeting in a ...

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would make Juneteenth a state holiday. HB165, sponsored by Rep. Rick Rehm, R-Abbeville, passed by a vote of 85 ayes and 4 nays.

Jasmin Hernandez-Alamillo, the community health coordinator for the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, a group that ...

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

Michigan House members propose a resolution to ban slavery as punishment for crimes, aiming for a constitutional amendment.

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

A resolution was introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives Tuesday, proposing an amendment to the state Constitution that would eliminate an exception to the ...