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6 years
โ€œAt our church weโ€™re encouraged to confess and ask for forgiveness of our sins, not call the women you allegedly victimized liars and damage them even more...but maybe your church is different.โ€ - Kimmel on Moore
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โ€œWe donโ€™t hate Alabama... we just donโ€™t like alleged child molesters.โ€ - Jimmy Kimmel stressing that he doesnโ€™t think most Alabamians support Roy Moore
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Roy Moore accuser Leigh Corfman has filed a lawsuit against him for defamation: "By this lawsuit, I seek to do what I could not do as a 14-year-old--hold Mr. Moore and those who enable him accountable."
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Tennessee rejected Memphis' application to remove Confederate statues from public land. In response, the city sold two public parks containing monuments to a private nonprofit on Wednesday and the statues, including a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, were removed overnight.
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Workers in Tennessee begin removing Confederate statues from Memphis parks after city council votes to sell the parks.
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Deborah Gibson, one of the women who said failed Senate candidate Roy Moore pursued her romantically as a teenager, has signaled her intention to run for the Florida Legislature.
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7 years
Roy Moore has declined our invitation to debate Doug Jones.
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WHNT-Channel 19 and @reckonalabama by had invited both candidates to take part in the debate.
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7 years
We're calling it. Birmingham voters resoundingly chose Randall Woodfin tonight. The Magic City will have a new mayor.
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6 years
ABC News reports Beverly Young Nelson will have a news conference later today. In this interview, she indicates that she added the date/location to the yearbook but maintains the signature is Roy Moore's.
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Beverly Young Nelson, one of the women accusing GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct, tells @GMA it โ€œsickensโ€ her to think what might happen if Moore is elected.
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โ€œThe country I thought we were living in is a myth," country singer @ChrisStapleton said. "I think we all have a lot of work to do as individuals and as a society and if you donโ€™t think that, I think youโ€™re not looking.โ€
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Last year, our reporting helped lead to the funding for a maternal death review committee in Alabama. That committee's first report has found that 70% of pregnancy-related deaths of Alabama women in 2016 were preventable, and recommends Medicaid expansion.
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6 years
In a speech in Birmingham today, @GDouglasJones didn't waste many opportunities to attack @MooreSenate
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Sen. Doug Jones received the backing Thursday of the Human Rights Campaign -- the advocacy group for LGBTQ civil rights -- in his battle for re-election.
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โ€œI feel like Doug has a long history of doing the right thing when itโ€™s not necessarily the most popular thing,โ€ @JasonIsbell said before playing a sold-out fundraiser for Sen. Doug Jones tonight at Birmingham's Lyric Theatre.
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6 years
Congratulations to our very own @JohnArchibald #PulitzerPrize
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6 years
Not every politician in Alabama is a crook.
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4 months
these requirements are getting out of hand
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This action will particularly help community college borrowers, low-income borrowers, and those struggling to repay their loans.
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Walt Maddox is Alabama's Democratic nominee for governor #alpolitics
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Winning a Pulitzer Prize is sweet. Sharing the moment with your son makes it even sweeter. Congrats to @JohnArchibald !
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6 years
Jimmy Kimmel offers to visit Gadsden Mall (with a group of high school cheerleaders) to discuss Christian values with Roy Moore. Say โ€œChristianโ€ is actually his middle name.
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4 years
The alums of Delta Sigma Theta sorority aren't letting anyone in the Montgomery, Ala. area not make it to the ballot box because of a transportation issue. A small army of around 50 drivers is answering calls and picking people up.
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6 years
โ€œSomehow found myself in a Twitter war with Roy Moore.โ€ - @jimmykimmel on tonightโ€™s show
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6 years
Debbie Gibson isn't the only one who noticed inconsistencies in Roy Moore's stories
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6 years
"It's a simple matter of subtraction. When Roy Moore first took notice of Kayla she would have been as young as 15." - @WaronDumb has figured out the timeline of when Moore first saw his wife.
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4 years
From @RoySJ , after the state's execution of Nathaniel Woods last night: "This is our truth: We kill people who didnโ€™t kill people. It is warranted. Under rule of law. That is Alabama."
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5 years
It's been a year since the @MemPeaceJustic opened in Montgomery. Since then, more than half a million people have visited. In a moving tribute, Reckon's @StarrDunigan reflects on why it's important we remember those lynched by mobs in Alabama and around the country.
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7 years
"We ought to thank these women for finally finding courage to come forward." - @JohnArchibald with powerful thoughts on Roy Moore
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4 years
Politico listed Jones, a former federal prosecutor in Alabama, most prominently among four possible contenders for the position.
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3 years
"I want to get out of here and just go home and hug my son,โ€ Roy Wood Jr. said. โ€œThatโ€™s really all Iโ€™m thinking about now. Just looking him in the eyes and reminding him, I promise you, you can be whatever you want to be.โ€
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2 years
Today, we're recognizing @tamisawyer , who has spearheaded campaigns in Memphis to remove Confederate statues, and also been outspoken on education funding, police brutality, voting rights, and masking.
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"This country was built on activism," @tamisawyer says. "Black people have had to use activism to free themselves, to escape racial violence and lynching. Without activism, we arenโ€™t where we are today... White people have had to use activism. Everyone."
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6 years
"Pro-life, you say? Alabama is 49th when it comes to infant mortality. Alabama babies die at a rate 50 percent higher than the nation as a whole. And the nation's infant mortality rate is a travesty." - @JohnArchibald
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โ€œBut I donโ€™t care if you have an R, D, or I in front of your name, when my representative stands in front of an already angry crowd, some of them armed, and says, โ€˜Today we start kicking a**,โ€™ Iโ€™m gonna say, โ€˜Thatโ€™s irresponsible.โ€™โ€ -Pastor Travis Collins
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4 years
Two reporters were covering a peaceful protest, when officers with the Birmingham PD informed them that they were โ€œunder arrest." The city had, the day before, specifically exempted media from the terms of the the city's curfew.
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Reckon
6 years
Birmingham had more homicides in 2017 than it's had in any year in the past two decades. Once you start to look at the data, some patterns emerge.
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6 years
With Georgia going to war with @Delta over the @NRA , Birmingham Mayor @WoodfinForBham wants to chat... ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€
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. @NPR โ€‹ revealed this week that former senator/Alabama AG Luther Strange has been being paid โ€œbehind the scenesโ€ by members of the Sackler family โ€” owners of opioid seller Purdue Pharma โ€” while working to convince GOP AGs to accept a Purdue bankruptcy plan.
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4 years
"I wish Alabama would see this movie," columnist @JohnArchibald writes of @JustMercyFilm , based on Bryan Stevenson of @eji_org 's book of the same name. "I wish Alabama would use this movie to see itself."
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6 years
Leigh Corfman wrote a letter and handed it to aldotcom after hearing Roy Moore speak last night. "I am telling the truth, and you should have the decency to admit it and apologize."
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6 years
AP has called it. Doug Jones will be Alabama's next senator. #ALSen
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Before influencers started making bank by partnering with beauty brands, Tiara Willis was already ahead of the game after starting her platform Makeup for Women of Color at only 14 years old.
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6 years
Sen. @DougJones didn't hold back when asked about a proposal to arm teachers with guns
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SO RAINBOW CAPITALISM IS WHEN CORPORATIONS PROFIT OFF QUEER, TRANS AND NONBINARY PEOPLE DURING PRIDE MONTH AND THEN ABANDON THEM AS SOON AS THERE'S BACKLASH. A PERFECT EXAMPLE IS LIKE WHAT TARGET AND CROCS AND THE LA DODGERS JUST DID
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3 years
Tell us how religion shaped your life in the South without telling us. โ›ช๏ธ๐Ÿ•Œ๐Ÿ•
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6 years
โ€œRoy Moore leads Doug Jones by five or six points, which doesnโ€™t say a lot for Doug.โ€ - Jimmy Kimmel
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6 years
It was bound to happen eventually...
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"Start to finish, I believe weโ€™ve made our best album yet," Alabama songwriter @JasonIsbell said on Twitter. "Canโ€™t wait for yโ€™all to hear it. Details soon.โ€
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6 years
Seriously, we can't stress this enough: Check and see if you are registered to vote.
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โ€œToday Iโ€™m like a proud parent,โ€ Alabama football coach Nick Saban said at the end of the march. โ€œIโ€™m proud of our team, Iโ€™m proud of our messengers over here and Iโ€™m very proud of the message."
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โ€œIโ€™ve known Doug Jones a long time,โ€ Sen. Shelby told National Journal last week. โ€œHe works well with me. We differ on a lot of issues. But heโ€™s very civil, and heโ€™s been helpful on a lot of issues that affect our state and the nation.โ€
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โ€œBlack and other vulnerable & marginalized communities who have contributed least to the problem feel the pain and suffering first, worst, and longest,โ€ Dr. Robert Bullard said. โ€œClimate change is the No. 1 environmental justice issue of the 21st century."
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Ali Velshi, host of the weekend news show Velshi on MSNBC, came to Birmingham this weekend in honor of Black History Month, and spoke with residents about the city's intense racial history, and how that history shapes the fight for racial justice today.
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"McQueen said he just never wanted to vote. He said he decided to finally register at the urging of his pastor and others."
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6 years
41 of Alabama's 67 counties send more students to Auburn than Alabama. #reckonomics
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President @realDonaldTrump reportedly made fun of AG Jeff Sessions' accent, saying he 'talks like he has marbles in his mouth.' So, why does Jeff Sessions talk the way he does?
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A Selma, Ala. native now living in Georgia, @MsLaToshaBrown is a co-founder of @BlackVotersMtr . That organization operating across 11 states in the South that works to increase Black voter registration and advocate for the strengthening of the VRA.
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Apparently the student from New Jersey thought it was okay for her to use racial slurs because โ€˜sheโ€™s in the South now.โ€™ Hey, Jersey, y'all can have her back.
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4 years
The closing of the StarDome in Hoover left nearly 70 employees without an income. But Birmingham native @RoyWoodJr is helping them out. As of Sunday morning, a GoFundMe for the StarDome's employees had raised more than $2,500.
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Sen. Doug Jones announces that he'll co-sponsor legislation to preserve net neutrality.
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Today I signed on to protect #NetNeutrality . It's the right thing to do for Alabama consumers & our small businesses.
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THE SOUTH'S BEEN LIVING IN A POST-ROE WORLD FOR DECADES. PROGRESSIVES IN NORTHERN STATES LEFT THEM BEHIND AS SOON AS ROE PASSED IN '73. THE WHOLE COUNTRY SHOULD BE LOOKING TO BLACK WOMEN IN THE SOUTH, THEY'VE BEEN CLEANING UP THE LEFTโ€™S CHAOS FOR YEARS.
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Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, was shot during the incident in the summer of 2020 is the victim in this case and her validity as such is not up for debate.
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This was the first "Pants on Fire" rating to come out of our collaboration with @PolitiFact .
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. @JohnArchibald is in New York this week to pick up his Pulitzer and... honestly... it's kind of nice to have him out of the office for a while.
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5 years
As late as 1954, two Alabama farmers were arrested for slavery. The story is even darker than you'd think.
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4 years
In one class at Tuscaloosa's Central High School, students are uncovering local black history themselves. They were assigned to research 11 Tuscaloosa County lynching victims:
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Black people in Alabama are arrested for marijuana possession at a rate of 11 per 10,000 residents. For white people, the rate is just 2.7 per 10,000. #reckonomics
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"If you care about women in places like Alabama, the solution isnโ€™t a boycott or a mocking tweet," Reckon's @AbbeyCrain writes in the @NYTimes . "Itโ€™s pretty simple. Yโ€™all come on down here and work with us to make a difference."
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Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes, R-Prattville, has been charged with first-degree theft of property in connection with a theft at a business where Dismukes worked.
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Mayor Pete paid a visit to the @MemPeaceJustice in Montgomery. โ€œIt is a reminder of the unspeakable harm done by white supremacy in this country but also a reminder that things from hundreds of years ago and things going on today are all connected."
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Tory Lanez is on trial, not Megan Thee Stallion. Tory Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, is facing a range of felony charges such as felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle.
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We talked to Southern conservatives, including Georgian and social media star @theCJpearson , about the future of conservatism in the South. He said among his Gen-Z cohort, โ€œthereโ€™s definitely more rejection of labels." More:
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A judge in Alabama has granted a record expungement to Claudette Colvin, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, months before Rosa Parks' famous stand. "My name was cleared," she said. "And I'm no longer a juvenile delinquent at 82."
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@taylorswift13 During the memorial performance, singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist, Annie Lenox, advocates for a ceasefire in Gaza "Artists for Ceasefire, peace in the world." -- Annie Lennox at the 2024 #Grammys
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Alabama's first lesbian lawmaker accuses the governor of being gay. Ivey calls it a "disgusting lie." Just another day in Alabama politics.
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In the wake of the 2011 tornadoes, Toomer's for Tuscaloosa mobilized Auburn Tigers fans and supporters to bring aid to the many affected in Tuscaloosa County. Now, Alabama supporters are calling on Tide fans to return the favor.
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Autherine Lucy Foster was the first Black student at the University of Alabama. Her name will now stand alone on a building on UA's campus, and not have to share a building with that of Klansman and former Alabama governor Bibb Graves.
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Why can't Alabama's Democratic Party get it together? @WarOnDumb explains why the state's participation in the 2020 Democratic National Convention is on the line: #alpolitics
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American women die at a higher rate from pregnancy and childbirth than women in any other developed country. The United States is one of the only countries where the maternal mortality rate is rising. The numbers in Alabama are troubling.
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Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes has resigned as pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Prattville after giving the invocation at a celebration of Ku Klux Klan leader and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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6 years
This is crazy. Reporter Ben Raines may have found the remains of the last known slave ship to come to the United States.
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5 years
How did the Alabama Democratic Party get so broken? @WarOnDumb explains.
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"You may call them anti-abortion. Theyโ€™ve earned that label," @WarOnDumb writes. "But donโ€™t dare call them pro-life, because as theyโ€™ve shown time again โ€” they donโ€™t care." #alpolitics
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Kay Ivey has won Alabama's gubernatorial race, handily beating Democratic opponent Walt Maddox. #alpolitics
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Congrats to @WarOnDumb for bringing home Reckonโ€™s first @SoutheastEMMY !
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โ€œIn the beginning of the vaccine, we would have days of like 80 people, and 70 would be Vietnamese,โ€ Bayou Pharmacy tech Courtney Moore. How one Vietnamese community in Alabama got almost every eligible person vaccinated:
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Jones on Space Force: "I just got the impression, to be completely candid about this, that the president woke up one morning and saw something in a comic book or something and said, 'This is a great idea!'"
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3 years
The Muppet Movie opens on a shot of Kermit the Frog playing his banjo in the swamps of Mississippi. Because Mississippi is where @KermitTheFrog and Jim Henson are from. That's right. The Muppets are Southern, at least in their roots.
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5 years
We've heard from at least 200 women in Alabama in the last 36 hours. Check out @aldotcom tomorrow to read their stories.
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An amendment to begin the process of removing outdated and racist language from Alabamaโ€™s constitution has passed.
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Should Alabama designate "Rosa Parks Day" as a state holiday?
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โ€œIโ€™m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,โ€ wrote Alabama Dr. Brytney Cobia. She said patients often ask for the vaccine before they're intubated. "I hold their hand and tell that I'm sorry, but it's too late."
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5 years
Good morning and happy Tuesday! It's been 1,215 days since former Alabama Speaker Mike Hubbard was sentenced to four years in prison, and he is yet to serve any of that time! Weird, right?
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4 years
Did Southern black voters decide the election? @michaelharriot describes why black voters in red states overwhelmingly backed Biden. He also discusses civil rights history, a confrontation with Pete Buttigieg and more on this week Reckon Interview.
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3 years
When it was ratified, the debate about the Second Amendment was rooted in anti-Blackness. And its application has always been anti-Black. @EmoryUniversity 's @ProfCAnderson has the documentation to back it up. Listen here on the Reckon Interview:
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Seems like @CroweJam has figured out @GovernorKayIvey 's campaign strategy #alpolitics
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