The state will end participation effective June 19, though benefits will continue to be processed until then.
Author: Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser
Southern schools’ history textbooks: A long history of deception, and what the future holds
For decades, Southern textbooks taught histories that distorted or ignored Black experiences.
Alabama governor apologizes to survivor of 1963 KKK church bombing that killed four Black girls
The governor’s letter to an attorney for Sarah Collins Rudolph, who lost her sister and was blinded in one eye in the terrorist attack on the church, did not make any commitments.
Calls grow to rename Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge after John Lewis. Some civil rights veterans say no.
“They weren’t marching to change a symbol. They were marching to change a system,” Selma Mayor Darrio Melton said of John Lewis’ Bloody Sunday protest.
Thomas Blanton, last KKK member involved in Birmingham church bombing that killed 4 girls, dies
Blanton was convicted of the murder of 4 girls in 2001, nearly four decades after the terrorist attack.
Alabama executes man as accomplice in 2004 police murders
Nathaniel Woods was put to death amid a storm of appeals and protests from supporters who noted that Woods did not actually kill the officers.
Abortion rights groups sue to block Alabama’s near-total ban
The near-total abortion ban in Alabama is scheduled to go into effect in November, but Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are suing to block it.
Alabama governor signs near-total abortion ban into law
Law criminalizing procedure in nearly all cases likely to face legal challenges
Planned Parenthood readies challenge to near-total abortion ban in Alabama
Planned Parenthood president says near-total ban “will cost women’s lives;” Ivey mum on whether she will sign it
Alabama Senate approves near-total ban on abortion; sends bill to the governor
The measure includes the most sweeping restrictions on abortion in the United States, almost certainly guaranteeing a legal challenge.