By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It was 1947 when Jack “Jackie” Roosevelt Robinson, son of a sharecropper from Cairo, Georgia, broke the color line in baseball. It was the beginning of the end for segregation in all aspects…
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Birmingham Barons to Welcome ’64 Barons To Regions Field
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The Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team will welcome former members of the 1964 Barons to the new Regions Field in downtown Birmingham on Tuesday, May 14 to commemorate the release of SOUTHERN LEAGUE: A True Story of Baseball, Civil…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: But There Will Be Video
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“…I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know … that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m…
Photo Essay: An April Walking Tour of Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, I took the time to do a walking photography tour of some of the national monuments in the nation’s capital. Check it out. All rights reserved. By Glynn Wilson. Click…
President Obama Nominates Tom Perez for Secretary of Labor
By Glynn Wilson – President Barack Obama nominated Tom Perez, a Hispanic who has served as the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights for the past four years, to join his cabinet on Monday as the new Secretary…
Edmund Pettus Bridge Makes List of National Historic Landmarks
By Glynn Wilson – The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama — the scene of the infamous civil rights march on March 7, 1965 that came to be called “Bloody Sunday” — made the most recent list of national historic…
Vice President Joe Biden to Participate in Civil Rights Events in Selma This Year
By Glynn Wilson – Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Alabama to take part in a Civil Rights anniversary event in March, according to state Senator Hank Sanders, the Selma Democrat. Sanders made the announcement Saturday in an e-mail…
Supreme Court to Consider the South’s Legacy On Voting Rights
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How can one be fair and balanced in the face of blatant, retrograde racism? The Washington Post is just now figuring out that at the top of the steps of Alabama’s old…
Sierra Club Joins Civil Rights Activists in White House Protest
Forty Eight Arrested in Historic Act of Civil Disobedience – Forty eight environmental activists and civil rights leaders from across the country joined together for a historic display of civil disobedience at the White House Wednesday morning, where they demanded…
The Red Queen Effect: You Can Choose Running in Place, Holding On to the Past
Or Watch the Spotlight Shining On the Future – “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – – The White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson –…
From Walden to the White House
By Michael Brune – Sierra Club Executive Director – If you could do it nonstop, it would take you six days to walk from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond to President Barack Obama’s White House. For the Sierra Club, that…
President Barack Obama Sworn in for Second Term on Inauguration Day
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama during the official swearing-in ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House on Inauguration Day, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. First Lady Michelle Obama, holding…
Police State 101: University Of South Alabama Offers After-Hours Course In Deadly Force
A protester at the University of South Alabama – Social Commentary – By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. — The University of South Alabama has taught a bonus lesson not included in the tuition. The instructor was a university policeman,…
The War Between the States is Finally Almost Over
Unfortunately Our Long Alabama Nightmare Continues – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. — The so-called leaders of Alabama’s Republican party honestly remind me of the last Rebs at Gettysburg, still willing to charge up…
Alabama Republicans Adopt Famous Racist Slogan of George Wallace
Letter to the Editor: By Peggy Wallace Kennedy – When you spend you entire life in the world of politics, sometimes the longest walk home is from your mailbox to the kitchen table. Monday, October 29th, was one of those…
Professor Wayne Flynt Says Vote ‘No’ on Amendment 4
By Wayne Flynt/ Special to the News-Journal – AUBURN, Ala. — Have you ever listened to a conversation between two friends about a complicated issue? Because you find some truth in both arguments, you change back and forth as each…
Ignoring the Monster in the Room Won’t Make ‘Frankenstorms’ Go Away
The Big Picture/ By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — I’m thinking of my friends in Eastern Seaboard states today who brace for a “Frankenstorm” over the next couple of days. High pressure over Greenland is keeping Hurricane Sandy from…
Judge Vance Offers Stark Contrast to Roy Moore for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice
by Glynn Wilson – OXFORD, Ala. — The Ten Commandments Judge now has a worthy opponent and the people of Alabama have a chance to be spared more self-serving religious craziness in the race for Chief Justice of the Alabama…
Obamacareless: Sickness Is the Health of the State
by David Underhill Guest Column The racket about getting medical care to those without it isn’t really about that. Keeping this in mind will make the shrillest weeks of the campaign season more bearable as elections approach. The coronation of…
Appeals Court Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcing Alabama’s Immigration Law
by Glynn Wilson The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has upheld most of a federal district court ruling granting a preliminary injunction preventing the enforcement of Alabama’s immigration law, most of which the court struck down on…
Reacting to Alabama’s Discriminatory Immigration Law, Obama Administration Forms New Civil Rights Unit
by Glynn Wilson BIRMINGHAM — In reaction to the Alabama Republicans’ discriminatory and unconstitutional new immigration law, most of which was stuck down the federal appeals court in Atlanta Monday and found to foster widespread discrimination against legally born Hispanic…