How do you define the blackness of a city? For Black History Month, we challenged writers to explain why they think…
Angela Davis’ homecoming was perfect.
The man in charge of defending indigent citizens in the criminal justice system of one of America’s blackest cities…
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“Black” is a magical word.
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Hard work pays off, and one Alabama teenager who served as inspiration goals for the rest of the country after being…
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What was billed as an afternoon with two brand-new young, progressive mayors recently elected to serve two of the…
In a Birmingham, Ala., controversy involving the mayor, a black church, gentrification and a white megachurch, an…
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Randall Woodfin believes any political revolution that takes off across the nation starts in cities like his…
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