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Alabama Black Lawmaker Calls Out New Congressional Map Limiting Black Power
The Root via Yahoo News· 10 months agoUpdated 07/29/2023 at 8:00 a.m. ET Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL.) isn’t taking the latest...
Terri Sewell wins election to U.S. House, defeats Republican and Libertarian opponents
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoU.S. Rep. Terri Sewell will represent Alabama’s 7th congressional district for another two years....
Photos of the Week: Train crashes, protests and spring training
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPresident Biden listens during a prayer after walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,...
Selma wants to be noticed more than one day a year
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSELMA, Ala. — When President Joe Biden landed here Sunday, he met a city frozen in time. Brick buildings, aging and largely untouched since the days its...
Alabama civil rights locations receive over $3 million in funding from National Park Service
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“This $3.1 million is a big win for the State of Alabama,” said Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell, “and will...
Rosa Parks Day could become a new federal holiday
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 6 months agoU.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Selma, has proposed a bill that would make Dec. 1 a federal holiday commemorating the arrest of Rosa Parks. Sewell bill has the...
'Her death was not in vain': Victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing remembered
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSixty years ago, four little girls in Birmingham paid the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for...
CBC pushes for Rosa Parks to be the first woman to have federal holiday
theGrio via AOL· 6 months ago“She sparked the beginning of a movement that changed the very fabric of our nation,” said U.S. Rep....
Democrats want federal voting rights bill ahead of 2024 elections
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWASHINGTON _ Ahead of the 2024 elections, Democratic lawmakers vowed to challenge a wave of...
City of Tuscaloosa receives $259,810 in federal funds for mental health court initiative
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe City of Tuscaloosa will use $259,810 in federal funds from the U.S. Department of Justice to...