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.
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.
Jalen Hurts on the Sunday cover of the Montgomery Advertiser after his triumphant leadership in Alabama's comeback
#SECChampionship
victory over Georgia.
#RollTide
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.
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.
"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.
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.
“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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'True strength and courage are found in the determination to do the right thing, even when you know the consequences may be painful,' Jeff Sessions writes.
“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.’”
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."
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.
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.
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.
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."
"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
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.