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6 years
First truth, then reconciliation. The cover of the Montgomery Advertiser for Thursday with the names of more than 300 lynching victims as @eji_org opens the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum.
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6 years
The cover of the Montgomery Advertiser for Wednesday after Sen.-elect Doug Jones' victory in the Alabama Senate election. #alpolitics
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4 years
Robert Graetz, who died Sunday at 92, was the only white minister who supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He and his family were the target of bombings and threats. He went onto a long career dedicated to social justice.
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A family affair: Two sisters take the bench in Montgomery County
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3 years
Montgomery airport will require masks after state order expires
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4 years
Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth tests positive for COVID-19
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5 years
Jalen Hurts on the Sunday cover of the Montgomery Advertiser after his triumphant leadership in Alabama's comeback #SECChampionship victory over Georgia. #RollTide
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Artist and activist Michelle Browder plans to build a $5.5 million museum and teaching clinic there to serve the community with a focus on the reproductive health of Black women.
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6 years
Thank you, Rosa Parks. On this day in 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, changing the world.
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The Montgomery Advertiser recognizes its own shameful place in the history of these dastardly, murderous deeds. We take responsibility for our proliferation of a false narrative regarding the treatment of African-Americans in those disgraceful days.
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4 years
Labor federation: Doug Jones is the right choice for Alabama's working people
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5 years
The families of Alabama's Henry Ruggs and Mack Wilson get together before the #IronBowl for a tailgate party. See more images: #Montgomery #RollTide
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"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," said Goodloe Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama.
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5 years
National Weather Service meteorologists are furloughed, working without pay. Saturday, they gave vital warning of Wetumpka's tornado. "Their hours are long and hard, and they approach their job with the heart of a servant. " TV meteorologist @spann said.
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4 years
“We cannot understand our present moment without recognizing the lasting damage caused by allowing white supremacy and racial hierarchy to prevail during Reconstruction,” EJI’s Director Bryan Stevenson said
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A trio of doctors, who had waited hours to speak, got up and left the council chamber in disgust. "Unbelievable," one said after the ordinance was defeated.
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A conversation (both in print AND audio form) with the #LassKicker @BeckyLynchWWE
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The catch of the Iron Bowl. Henry Ruggs III on the cover of the Montgomery Advertiser after Alabama’s 52-31 win over Auburn.
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The US Supreme Court Thursday night blocked a lower court decision that would have loosened some absentee voting restrictions in Alabama and allowed counties to set up curbside voting for the July 14 runoff.
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Former Alabama RB Jimmy Johns, at age 35, earns a Consumer Sciences degree from Alabama on Friday.
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6 years
Who was one difference maker on defense for Alabama in the college football playoffs? Montgomery native Mack Wilson, that's who.
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5 years
Beto O'Rourke is scheduled to speak Friday in Montgomery. Here's what you should know if you're hoping to go:
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Jackson Hospital and Baptist Health said their facilities have been on diversion this week, meaning capacity is filled enough that hospitals must turn divert incoming patients to other hospitals.
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8 years
AL Chief Justice Roy Moore suspended, faces new judicial ethics charges.
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Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. has already given $21.5 million to the university after his pledge last September with the rest still to come. But in a news release last week, he urged students to participate in a boycott of the school.
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5 years
The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
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An Alabama native. An American icon. A man who changed our lives. John Lewis, 1940-2020. More:
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Charles Henderson's Maori Davenport, a senior at Charles Henderson has been ruled ineligible by state high school officials after receiving an $857.20 check from USA Basketball.
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Damage in Wetumpka after the tornado is overwhelming. See our gallery of photos here: @spann
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Stunning mural painted for #Juneteenth on Court Square Fountain, once the site of a slave market. See it put together: via @mickeywelsh
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The cover of the Montgomery Advertiser after Steven Reed makes history in Montgomery, Alabama, becoming the city's first African American mayor.
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Near the end of a press conference for Roy Moore, a reporter asked a question: Where was Roy Moore? “He’s campaigning,” said a longtime Moore associate. If Moore is doing that, he's keeping it a secret.
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State Representative Will Dismukes who appeared at a celebration for Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest stepped down from a Prattville church where he served as pastor.
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5 years
Ummmmmmmm ... #RollTideRoll
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A rainbow over tornado-damaged Wetumpka. Read and see more from the storm that caused major damage in Alabama here: @spann
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A rainbow over Jordan-Hare Stadium during the rain delay of the Auburn-Southern Miss game. #WarEagle @spann
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3 years
More than 12,700 Alabama Power customers without service after storms
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4 years
“Coming from where I’m from and the family that I’m in, I was raised around five brothers,” Henry Ruggs said. “So, the motto was: ‘If one eats, we all eat.’”
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5 years
Steven Reed makes history as Montgomery's first African American mayor:
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The men leading Make a Differerence Foundation? Community heroes, for sure. “They saved my baby from the streets,” @iam__mw3o 's mom Sandra Wilson said. “Those men were like fathers to make sure Mack stayed on the right path and reached his potential mentally and spiritually."
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John Lewis' hearse crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma before memorial services to honor him Saturday. #GoodTrouble . More photos:
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Alabama: SEC West champs. #RollTide
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3 years
Putting Smith to death puts others at risk: Stop Alabama executions during COVID-19 pandemic
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5 years
Hey @5mackwilson1 check out this photo we just found in our archives. Is that Shaquille Johnson behind Rod Scott and @__RUGGS celebrating a title in 2017? RIP Rod and Shaquille.
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The cover of the Sunday, Sept. 16, Montgomery Advertiser includes a story on @iam__mw3o Mack Wilson's tribute tattoo to his cousin Shaquille Johnson and friend Rod Scott.
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Country star @jamey_johnson brought a star-studded lineup to his Montgomery homecoming concert. Relive the night and the music here:
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It's a first-time show for Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Montgomery Biscuits; Along with Johnson, will feature Toby Keith, Randy Houser, Jerrod Niemann, Lee Brice, Sweet Lizzy Project and more.
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6 years
Movie based on Bryan Stevenson's autobiography to begin filming in Montgomery
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I felt someone pushing to help me up the tunnel and through the walkway to Carver's locker room.
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Wetumpka RB Kavosiey Smoke @TheGoatSmoke7 is #BluegrassBound18 . Read about it here:
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What Mississippi State fans must be feeling after watching that replay. An NBA reenactment of the last Bulldog block in the back.
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Devastating tornado killed three people in Pickens County, Alabama. See more photos of the storm damage here: @spann
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The automaker asked the Alabama dealership to end the gun promotion after 3 people were shot to death Tuesday at a California Ford dealership.
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6 years
Us watching the Alabama-Arkansas game ... from our couch. Come on. #RollTide
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During the Park Crossing-Carver game, Park Crossing quarterback Keondre Hope, who died in an ATV accident, was honored. See more photos:
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Jamari Smith, a star basketball and football player at Lee High School and recent Class of 2020 graduate, drowned Wednesday afternoon. "He was good kid, man." his football coach said. "The kid always smiled. ... It's just hard right now."
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"Hell on Earth" "Dehumanizing" "A killing ground" Inmates in Alabama's prisons described the "horrid" conditions they're living in through phone calls and letters with The Advertiser. Here are their stories
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VIDEO: @YungSimba4 James Foster likes Jameis Winston but his favorite QB will be just 45 minutes from him while he's at Texas A&M: @deshaunwatson "I've been watching Deshaun since he was in high school. I try to study everything he do." via @MGMAdvertiser
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Photos from Beauregard, Alabama, tornado scene Monday are devastating. See more images here: @spann
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Auburn has fired football coach Bryan Harsin after a troubled term that didn't last two full seasons, making him the program's shortest-tenured head coach in the last 93 years. Who could be the Tigers' next coach?
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Steven Reed was elected mayor of Montgomery in the runoff election.
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On Friday, President Joe Biden signed the National Heritage Area Act into law, which officially created the Alabama Black Belt National Heritage area.
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Troy, baby. Went to Nebraska and is coming home with the W. Another year, another huge road win over major conference foe.
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In 24 hours, Lanier 4-star senior quarterback James Foster @YungSimba4 will announce his college football choice. Visited Florida State this weekend. Will choose between #Noles , #Alabama , #LSU and #TAMU
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Alabama. SEC champs. Now on to the playoffs to get another title. Roll Tide. See more photos:
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She's an All-SEC gymnast, aerospace engineering graduate and future Boeing employee who will get married in June. Her injury is just part of her story.
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The Troy University decision will put John Lewis' name on the building in place of Bibb Graves, a former Alabama governor and member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Carver's Brandon Austin signs with Tide; Joseph Strugg with MSU http://t.co/cx19dS3cx3 http://t.co/TlYAYLw6VU
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BREAKING: Montgomery Public School students will not return to school Aug. 10 as planned. Students will learn virtually for the first nine weeks of school.
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5 years
Today, Jefferson Davis' birthday is a state holiday with offices closed and employees with the day off. On this day, here is the cover of the Montgomery Advertiser that highlights the voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
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@JoshVitale Already in an envelope and headed to grandma’s house now.
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#BREAKING Planned Parenthood sues @GovernorBentley over Medicaid cancellations #alpolitics http://t.co/oKQEhXOd9s
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