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

The board members of an Alabama library at the center of a culture war over the placement of so-called ‘sexually explicit’ ...

The book referenced was "Sold", a National Book Award finalist, which tells the story of a girl trafficked into sexual slavery in India. A new Alabama law and a 2024 administrative code change ...

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 ...

Born the grandson of Alabama slaves during segregation in 1899 and facing a lifetime of personal and professional challenges, Percy Lavon Julian nevertheless went on to become one of the 20th ...

but many slave owners in the South like Meaher continued it for years. After the Civil War, Africans brought on Meaher's covert trip would go on to found Africatown, Alabama, where many of their ...

the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...