Montgomery students get first-land lesson on civil rights history
Some students in Montgomery Public Schools got the chance to learn first-hand what it was like growing up in the city during the Civil Rights era.
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Equal Justice Initiative unveils Rosa Parks statue in downtown Montgomery
A statue honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks has been unveiled at the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Plaza in downtown Montgomery.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., remembered at Montgomery church he once led
The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was remembered at a Montgomery church on the national holiday in his honor.
MPS band director to be featured on the Kelly Clarkson Show
You can catch the Kelly Clarkson Show on January 15 at 3 p.m. on WAKA Action 8.
EPA to investigate whether Alabama discriminated against Black residents in infrastructure funding
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it has opened a civil rights investigation into whether Alabama discriminated against Black residents when handing out funding for wastewater infrastructure.
Alabama woman gets a year in jail for hanging racially offensive dolls on Black neighbors’ fence
A South Alabama woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for hanging racially offensive homemade dolls on her Black neighbors’ fence in an attempt to get them to move.
For Emmett Till’s family, national monument cements his place in U.S. history
Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin.
Rev. Jesse Jackson to step down as head of civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH
Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to step down from leading the Chicago civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH Coalition he founded in 1971.
Postage stamp honoring civil rights icon John Lewis unveiled
The life of Alabama native, civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis is being remembered with a new postage stamp.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, at Center of Emmett Till Death, Dies
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana.
