Jeremy Gray
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Managing Producer of Breaking News for Alabama Media Group @aldotcom . Dad, husband, journalist, author, Bessemer native, Irondale man. jgray @al .com.
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“They deserve praise and support - not ridicule - from all of us - including an elected official who previously made millions off the backs of the black students our teachers have produced.”
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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said Tuberville’s “smearing of teachers... is a new low. "
“He could only wish to possess the skills and knowledge that educators have."
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He got sober at the age of 42. “If you want to get sober, try 27 days in the LA county jail. That will sober your ass up.”
While serving time for 3 counts of DUI in a year, in 1997, he was cellmates with the then down-on-his-luck Robert Downey Jr.
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"Justice Ginsburg’s dissents were often even more powerful than her voice when she was in the majority,"
@JoyceWhiteVance
writes. "She described them as 'appealing to the intelligence of a future day.'”
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The ship will operate on federal waters — nine miles from the coast of Texas and three from Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi — where it can evade those states' abortion restrictions
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Sitting aboard Air Force One, Biden was scanning the newspaper and spotted a ghostly photo.
By August, Lowndes County, Alabama, had a $10 million grant to fix the problem.
@bennettphoto
#alpolitics
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Vice President Kamala Harris swears in
@KatieBrittforAL
in the Old Senate Chamber at the US Capitol. - At center is Britt's husband Wesley Britt and their children (L), Bennett and Ridgeway Britt. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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He’s loud and outgoing, yelling “Alabama!” at her down a hallway, giving her fist bumps and asking about her husband and family.
“That shows you the difference that treatment can make,” Britt says. “It’s just incredible to see.”
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Chris Nowinski tweeted the Miami Dolphins “should go to jail for letting him play five days after an obvious concussion you covered up. If he dies from second-impact syndrome, I’m pushing for murder charges.”
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Yesterday, I heard
@KarenKilgariff
on
@MyFavMurder
say your early 20s is "when you are loud and wrong." Preach.
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The lawsuit comes two weeks after AG Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would scrutinize a wave of new laws in Republican-controlled states that tighten voting rules. He pledged to take action if prosecutors found unlawful activity.
#Georgia
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Tuberville purchased $1.8M in copper, steel, aluminum before Biden signed the infrastructure package.
Tuberville also sold up to $15,000 in Microsoft stock two weeks before the company’s $10 billion DOD contract was canceled.
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Am I the only one who finds it strange that some folks who are heaping praise on John Lewis have fought for years to turn back the voting rights Rep. Lewis got his skull fractured in Selma to secure?
Yesterday, we lost one of our greatest Americans when Alabama native and Georgia Congressman John Lewis passed away! He is one of our greatest civil rights leaders and role models who not only preached, but lived a life promoting nonviolent social change!
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Any
@aldotcom
reporter who lands an interview with Connor the Urn Guy is getting taken out for a steak dinner.
AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE SENT ME MORE VIDEO OF CONNOR STUCK IN THE URN AND GETTING CHISELED OUT
I REPEAT: MORE OF CONNOR STUCK IN THE URN
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“Bubba Copeland was a childhood friend. He didn���t deserve the public shaming he received. None of us are perfect,” one person posted. “His life didn’t have to end this way.”
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I got a crisp $20 bill for anyone who can help us land an interview with the guy swimming.
“Sixteen in the clip and one in the hoolllee/ Nate Dogg swimming ‘cross a river to make some bodies turn cooolldddd…”
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Watch Alabama A&M's marching band lead Macy’s 2023 Thanksgiving Day Parade
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“You know what you’re getting with President Trump,”
@TTuberville
said. “He doesn’t have to learn the ropes. He knows the ropes. ... I like someone who will come in and say, ‘Listen, I don’t care. I will do what’s good for America.’”
#alpolitics
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“He’s talking about Democrats wanting to pay reparations to criminals, and basically the broad brush that he’s painting, the Black community that they’re just criminals. Folks, that kind of crap has got to stop.”
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Rrrrr! Hulk sue!
A man at the Clark County School Board meeting invoked Black History Month and implored them to teach about “Hulk Lawyer,” who he claimed was a Black Confederate soldier under “General Vines.”
There is no record of a Confederate General named Vines or anyone named Hulk Lawyer.
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We have no information about the suspect.
“The community probably wants to make sure there’s no one around here that’s going to keep doing this,” Dadeville's mayor said. “Their minds want to be settled.”
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“The notion that queer people are out to “indoctrinate,” “groom,” or “recruit” children is a prejudiced falsehood that dates back decades in America and has led to innocent queer people losing their lives and livelihoods."
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Marilyn Lands win marks the first net gain for the Democrats in either chamber of the Alabama Legislature since 2002 and sends "Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans a clear message,” said Biden-Harris Campaign Manager.
#alpolitics
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President Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Fred Gray.
#alpolitics
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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The arrests of Atmore News publisher and co-owner Sherry Digmon and reporter Don Fletcher stemmed from an article on an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office investigation into COVID funds that were possibly improperly paid to 7 former county school employees.
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"I hope if you ever have children, they never have to face what I am now going through. I hope that they never have to find out that their father caused another man’s death ... You and your colleagues took my father" Bubba Copeland's son wrote to 1819 News
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This is weird.....'The Alabama Department of Health believes "it would be premature to determine that a cancer cluster exists in the area."
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On what planet is it acceptable for any reason for any coach to throw anything at anyone? Don't care it's his son. Don't care what happened on the field. How will Pell City address this?
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“Alabama women and families sent a clear message that will be heard in Montgomery and across the nation. Our legislature must repeal Alabama’s no-exceptions abortion ban, fully restore access to IVF, and protect the right to contraception.”
#alpolitics
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“These are important nominations that we need,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “They risk our military readiness by depriving our armed forces of leadership and hurt our military families. That’s what he’s doing.”
#alpolitics
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“Cozying up to the KKK and using the N word should make you unfit to serve,” said executive director Wade Perry. “Racists belong in the history books with Bull Connor and George Wallace, not on the taxpayer’s payroll.”
#alpolitics
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'It is a fair expectation for the public to call for those who fund 1819 News to step into the light.. If the financiers of 1819 News believe in the mission and methods of the organization, they should have no qualms about attaching their names to its output.'
#alpolitics
"With such power comes a profound responsibility to discern the public interest from morbid curiosity."
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@roywoodjr
I used to go to one in West End that sold styrofoam cups of the crispy pieces from the fryer for 50 cents
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"You can kiss my ass if you vote yes. You can kiss my ass if you vote yes. You can kiss my ass," said the woman who threw a pair of stuffed lips toward
@SenDougJones
.
#alpolitics
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Alabama set its benefit amount at $164 for a family of three. It has only been raised once, in 2002, to $215. The Legislature could have passed a bill to raise the benefits in the last 20 years, but has chosen not to. From
@ALReflector
#alpolitics
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The Birmingham News was fortunate to hire the very talented
@RobinsonCarol
34 years ago, on this day in 1986.
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The number of pediatric
#COVID19
patients admitted to
#Alabama
hospitals in the last week increased by more than 300% -- nearly 260 kids, an average of 37 per day, outpacing
#Florida
,
#Georgia
and
#Louisiana
.
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This is great
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“I cannot tell you that I fully understand or can explain the scope of this tragedy. There are some things though that I do know that are absolutely true. I know that my friend Bubba Copeland loved this church and its people."
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U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA), lies in state at the US Capitol.
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@m1sskapture
@LRNROSE
I've actually been surprised by the response to this. It was very traumatic at the time but you heal. I worry about my kids and cars as they get older. We lost lots of kids to wrecks back then. We saw it as a normal part of growing up.
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"We just want our voices heard....We love what we do, we love our patients, and we to continue to fight for and care for our patients, but we want to be equally compensated and treated correctly while we sit over here and save all the lives that we do.”
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It was shocking to hear from Beth Holloway after Joran van der Sloot confessed he 'bludgeoned' her to death for refusing his sexual advances. Amazing work by
@RobinsonCarol
,
@IvanaSuzette
. I have been reporting on this since my second year on the job at The Birmingham News.
After 18 years, there might be some answers today in the mysterious disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Follow us here as
@RobinsonCarol
and
@IvanaSuzette
provide the latest updates from Joran van der Sloot's hearing.
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Ace crime reporter
@RobinsonCarol
joined the staff of The Birmingham News 33 years ago today,
#OTD
1986. This pic is from a profile of her in the Auburn alumni magazine.
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"A small town in east Alabama is saying goodbye to someone it shouldn’t have lost. The hope is that some other person struggling with similar issues will find the reassurance and love to know they are not walking alone."
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"If that’s his true view, that’s his true view, but ain’t nothing right about it. Ain’t nothing right about what he said," Karlos Dansby said.
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At the end of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, Harry Belafonte leans on a podium. On the podium are, among others, activist Andrew Young (back to camera in jeans) and the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (Photo by Charles Shaw/Getty Images)
#RIP
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"I do not believe that Tommy Tuberville is a racist at all,” an unnamed Alabama Republican told Rolling Stone. “I really believe that maybe he doesn’t have an understanding of the English language."
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Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., left, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., back from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik).
#alpolitics
Alabama's Mike Rogers grabbed by the face as he is restrained, pulled away from Matt Gaetz.
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I still remember the first time I ate a Milo’s hamburger. It changed my life.
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Amazing Grace is being sung at Bubba Copeland's church this morning as plans for his funeral were announced. "I know my friend Bubba Copeland loved this church and its people." They read from the 23rd Psalm, the last message he gave less than 48 hours before his death.
“Bubba Copeland was a childhood friend. He didn’t deserve the public shaming he received. None of us are perfect,” one person posted. “His life didn’t have to end this way.”
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ACLU of Alabama is getting $ 2 million and First Light which helps people facing homelessness in Birmingham is getting $1 million.
MacKenzie Scott donates $640 million -- more than double her initial plan -- to nonprofit applicants
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,
@HaganforHouse
announced the creation of a committee of lawyers who will volunteer to help voters. Her campaign will staff a hotline for voter concerns.
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Birmingham earlier this week had 3 homicides in less than 36 hours, plus another in east Jeffco. In the last 3 days, there have been homicides in Pratt City and Fairfield. I didn't hear a peep from anyone. Hoover PD sends an alert and you'd think it was the Manson Family murders.
Hoover police have set up a large perimeter along U.S. 31. A helicopter is providing air support.
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"The people of this state should expect our elected officials to not make things worse.
Yet they do. Repeatedly. Cheerfully. Stupidly.
And things are bad for LGBTQ+ Alabamians right now."
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#RealTime
with
@BillMaher
used my headline to start a “Redneck Headline Challenge.” He threw down the gauntlet with: “Humping Cousins Knock Over Tiki Torch, Set Confederate Flag Ablaze and Cause Meth Lab Explosion in Trailer Park” Challenge accepted, Maher. Challenge. Accepted.
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@Jacen_art
@Ssnyder1835
I had the toy version of that and ruined my carpet with it. Hid the spot with a comic book box until we moved 7 years later.
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Steve Walls, a good friend of my parents at Montevallo, was among the first in Alabama to die of AIDS at age 36
#otd
in 1986. He was buried in a metal box out of fear of the virus. He made furniture, ran an antique shop. His wife Cathy made this for the
@aids_memorial
quilt.
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Ivey "has undermined the health and well-being of
#Alabama
children and put doctors like me in the horrifying position of choosing between ignoring the medical needs of our patients or risking being sent to prison," a plaintiff said.
#alpolitics
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She likes Taylor Swift. She enjoys being on her school’s debate team. And she listens way too loudly to music in her room.
“I’m just trying to be a teenager in America,” she told senators.
#alpolitics
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This Waffle House customer covered for a smothered cook when the staff scattered. Fun story by
@lawrencespecker
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1819 News, LLC works with nonprofit Alabama Media Foundation which has 3 directors: Bryan Dawson, cryptocurrency promoter Joshua Rhodes, and Mark Peeples, a developer involved with an anti-abortion group Lifeline Children’s Services.
#alpolitics
🧵
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the “parents’ rights” group Moms for Liberty as extremist.
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Bubba Copeland was attacked in a post on Wednesday morning and addressed his congregation that night.
“God will always protect you, take care of you,” Copeland said. “He will see you through anything.”
He died by his own hand earlier this evening.
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Watching video of a zip-tied reporter cry for someone to call me was agonizing. I hired
@StarrDunigan
and have worked with
@HowardKoplowitz
ever since he joined our team. They were standing on a sidewalk when they were loaded into a van.
Unacceptable.
I’m so sorry that
@HowardKoplowitz
and
@StarrDunigan
had to endure this while just doing their jobs as journalists.
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We don't run many mugshots but in this case....Also, I woulda named it Lil Sebastian.
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If found guilty of the felony charge, David Cole would automatically lose his seat in the Alabama House.
#alpolitics
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“The president’s blatant prioritization of partisan political considerations at the expense of our national security, military modernization, and force readiness is a disservice and a dishonor to his oath of office,"
@SenKatieBritt
said.
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“I snuck back there and went through some files,” 1819 News' Erica Thomas told Sean Sullivan.
“You know we’re on the air, right?” Sullivan replied. “It didn’t say you couldn’t go in,” Thomas said.
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"Here in
#Alabama
, we will continue this fight until all unborn children are protected once and for all."
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Rosalynn Carter speaking to the Women's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. in Birmingham, Alabama, greeting supporters that day in Gadsden and appearing with Jimmy in Tuscumbia, all in September 1980.
#RIP
#alpolitics
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"I am absolutely against a government mandate on the vaccine, which is why I signed the vaccine passport ban into law here in
#Alabama
. This is not the role of the government,"
@GovernorKayIvey
said.
#alpolitics
#COVID19
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Katie Britt said she would be willing to watch Saturday’s Alabama-LSU game from the Senate cloakroom to get appropriations bills passed. “I’m so sick of us just passing the buck, or waiting, I’m ready to work,” she said.
#alpolitics
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We are monitoring developments in
#Dadeville
where it is reported a large police presence has been spotted. Follow us here for the latest news.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with the court's liberals in affirming a lower-court ruling that found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in Alabama where more than one in four residents is Black.
#alpolitics
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“Ya’ll watch the news ... I’m fixing to pop this balloon.”
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"Abducted by aliens in the late 1930s, the African-American musician Herman Poole Blount ... was not, as he previously believed, from Birmingham, Alabama. He came from Saturn, and his real name was Sun Ra."
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An American cardinal flies to a seed feeder as a sparrow waits his turn in St. Clair County. Photo by
@JoeSonger22
.
#alwx
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Any 2 Republicans in the
#alsen
runoff could marry each other on Bear Bryant's grave, under ISIS flag & still beat the Democrat
#alpolitics
Democrats might actually have a chance to take Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat in Alabama.
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Johnny Grimes sat outside Wheelhouse salon, which was heavily damaged in riots, all night. “It’s frustrating but I can sympathize with what the African-American community is going through. I just hope something positive comes out if it. I hope it sparks a national conversation.”
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A teen victim's mother said that one of the attackers was heard saying he was getting his gun.
“He tried to go get the gun but was tackled by an employee of the Harriott II named Aaren,’’ she said.
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“What I’m trying to say is that, I DO NOT agree with any of the vile rhetoric coming out of his mouth. Please don’t confuse my brother with me. Thanks, Charles Tuberville.”
#alpolitics
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Lindell “believes there’s a potential to hack some equipment, even though we assured him none of our equipment is connected to the Internet,”
@JohnHMerrill
said. "He’s going to run some tests."
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ALEA referred questions to ALDOT. Requests for comment from ALDOT were not immediately returned.
How hard is it to fix these signs? What if there had been an emergency on the interstate? Would the signs alert people?
#alpolitics
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As a favor to my brother,
@TheGloryFires
sang 'Heaven's Jubilee' at my mother's funeral -- a song she told me my whole life she wanted performed at her service. I had no idea who he was in 2008. Tonight I learned he canceled a SXSW showcase to be do that.
We also chat about Egan's, Cave 9,
@bohicks
, Atlanta,
@Alabama_Shakes
, Flannery O'Connor, Bull Connor, Eric Robert Rudolph, and more. We covered a whole lot of ground in 45 minutes.
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I would put the breaking news team at
@aldotcom
up against any in the U.S. any day. And 2023 was wilder than most years. Here is some of the amazing work
@RobinsonCarol
,
@billineastala
,
@LeadaGore
,
@HowardKoplowitz
,
@WKulo
and
@Mark_Heim
shared with Alabama this year. 🧵
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Alabama native
@repjohnlewis
arrested with fellow Freedom Riders on this day in 1961.
May 24, 1961: first Freedom Riders are arrested after reaching Jackson, Mississippi (Among them:
@repjohnlewis
).
Their mugshots, via
@MDAH_Official
:
#FreedomRiders
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Imagine if everyone who lives in Huntsville suddenly vanished forever. That's what
#coronavirus
has done to America in just 6 months.
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