36 days ago

New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on US erasure ⊖

found 2026 › Jun › 19 (Fri) @ 14:07 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

‘We have come too far to turn around now,’ the monument on Alabama’s Montgomery Square reads

At the recently opened Montgomery Square in Alabama, bronze hands rise from the pavement, holding a placard…

59 days ago

‘We’re going backwards’: Black political power under threat in Alabama after Voting Rights Act gutting ⊖

found 2026 › May › 27 (Wed) @ 13:36 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

US supreme court ruling could eliminate two majority-Black districts and entrench Republican control from Congress to county school boards

Alabama has long been considered the birthplace of the voting…

79 days ago

Southern Poverty Law Center pleads not guilty in federal fraud case ⊖⊖

found 2026 › May › 07 (Thu) @ 20:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Prosecutors allege SPLC funneled over $3m to sources in extremist groups but legal experts say case is weak

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) plea…

3 months ago

Woke Southern Poverty Law Center charged with fraud by DoJ as anti-racism nonprofit is accused of secretly giving cash to white supremacists including KKK members ⊖

found 2026 › Apr › 22 (Wed) @ 15:24 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Located in Montgomery, Alabama , the left-wing non-profit has been accused by the Department of Justice (DoJ) of executing a shadowy scheme from 2014 until 2023.

4 months ago

Scammed out of £17k, one woman flew across UK to confront suspect ⊖

found 2026 › Mar › 17 (Tue) @ 09:42 UTC

a story from BBC ✅ › BBC News

Rhonda Montgomery was scammed out of £17,000 by fraudsters pretending to work for Revolut.

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it ○

found 2026 › Mar › 04 (Wed) @ 05:42 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr p…

6 months ago

Claudette Colvin obituary ⊖

found 2026 › Jan › 21 (Wed) @ 15:15 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

US civil rights activist who as a schoolgirl protested against segregation on Alabama’s buses

Although she was a pivotal figure in the US civil rights movement, Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86…

Claudette Colvin’s life should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops | Gary Younge ⊕

found 2026 › Jan › 17 (Sat) @ 08:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear

“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carl…

Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86 ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Jan › 14 (Wed) @ 02:56 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up he…

Texas father rescues kidnapped 15-year-old daughter after tracking her phone’s location ⊕

found 2025 › Dec › 29 (Mon) @ 03:05 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Authorities say they arrested a man, 23, for kidnapping teen in a Houston suburb as she walked her dog on Christmas

A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter’s cell phone to fi…