Source: Bongarts / Getty Former NBA player Derrick Coleman is taking a stand against Alabama’s redistricting efforts after announcing he will not attend his induction ceremony into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame. “I declined because this moment is bigger than an award,” Coleman wrote in the Facebook post announcing his decision. “We are living […]
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Just two days ago, Trump was bragging on Truth Social about having a “38-0” record, crowing about taking “out many bad Political ‘Leaders’ and Pundits including Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lightweight ‘Congressman’ Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brad Raffensperger of Georgia, REALLY DUMB Stephen Colbert of CBS, and others.” Lahn, a farmer, drew a lot […]
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Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black […]
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Source: Sean Rayford / Getty The ongoing redistricting roller coaster has taken another turn after a redistricting effort backed by President Donald Trump stalled in the South Carolina Senate. The New York Times reports that the state Senate voted against ending the debate period on the new map, effectively preventing its implementation ahead of the […]
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Preemption. States in the South often bar cities from raising the minimum wage, mandating that companies provide paid sick leave, enacting policies to reduce carbon emissions, removing Confederate monuments, or virtually anything else that is considered liberal. So Democratic voters in the South often elect mayors and City Council members who have little power. Going […]
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Source: pepifoto / Getty Primary elections in Alabama and several other southern states became unnecessarily complicated after the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act last month. Alabama postponed the primary election in several districts so state legislators could move forward with implementing a map previously found to be racially gerrymandered. While it looked […]
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Source: SAMUEL CORUM / Getty Another day, another southern state announcing its desire to bring back the days of Jim Crow. On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called a special legislative session to draw a new congressional map. CBS News reports that Kemp signaled he would trigger a redistricting effort shortly after the Supreme Court […]
Read MoreSource: Leonid Andronov / Getty Over the last week, several Republican led state legislatures throughout the South have shown that they believe the “fair” part of free and fair elections to be entirely optional. While redistricting efforts to disenfranchise Black voters are currently underway in Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana, South Carolina made the surprising move […]
Read MoreSource: diane555 / Getty On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered. NBC News reports that the Supreme Court set aside those previous rulings and sent the case back to the lower courts for relitigation. Alabama has tried for […]
Read MoreThe worst is still yet to come, though; the full effect of high gas prices will not affect everything else for a few more months, according to Citigroup, who told its clients Monday that “energy costs likely would not start to feed through to core goods prices for at least a few more months.” Meanwhile, […]
Read MoreSource: Douglas Rissing / Getty Last month, the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act through its ruling on Louisiana v. Callais. As a result of that ruling, several red states have already moved to implement redistricting efforts that would disenfranchise Black voters. Below are the states that are gleefully rebooting the Jim Crow […]
Read MoreUsing the DOJ’s data, Alito also elided the fact that the racial voter gap is actually widening. In the three most recent presidential elections since Barack Obama was on the ballot, Black voter turnout has trailed white voter turnout, according to The Guardian’s analysis. In Louisiana, the disparity grew wider between 2016, 2020, and 2024. […]
Read MoreSource: The Washington Post / Getty The hits really don’t stop coming. As if the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act last week wasn’t bad enough, on Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the state’s Democratic-led redistricting effort was unconstitutional. AP News reports that, in a 4-3 ruling, the court found […]
Read MoreFurther still, the modular rifle has become ingrained in the American consciousness by way of mass-casualty events, and is favored by killers who are looking to do as much damage to the human body as possible. At least 10 of the 17 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history involved a gunman wielding an AR-15 style […]
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“The Tariff will be increased to 25%. It is fully understood and agreed that, if they produce Cars and Trucks in U.S.A. Plants, there will be NO TARIFF,” Trump posted. “Many Automobile and Truck Plants are currently under construction, with over 100 Billion Dollars being invested, A RECORD in the History of Car and Truck […]
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Speaking on CNN’s The Source Wednesday, Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, challenged Trump’s claim, arguing that mobsters just don’t talk like that. “There was a point in my life where I spent the better part of my waking hours either talking face-to-face with real-world mobsters, or listening to them talk to each other over […]
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Restricting SNAP benefits does not solve hunger or improve health; it polices low-income families under the guise of ‘public health’. Alabama has high rates of chronic illness, but lacks investment in solutions like Medicaid expansion and strengthening local food systems. Policies targeting low-income and Black communities reflect a history of using control over resources to […]
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Source: Federal Defenders for the Middle District of Alabama / Federal Defenders The governor of Alabama has commuted the death sentence of a Black man who participated in a robbery during which someone was shot and killed, but did not commit the shooting himself. According to the Washington Post, on Tuesday, Gov. Kay Ivey revised […]
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