The Birmingham, Ala. resident and Army veteran fell to his knees but never dropped the American flag he carried through the violence of 1965's Bloody Sunday civil rights march. Armstrong died this week at 86. More...
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The State of Alabama's unemployment insurance trust fund is the latest to collapse under the weight of the Great Recession. More...
The keynote address delivered by John Lewis -- the longtime Congressman from Georgia and a key leader of the U.S. civil rights movement -- at the 2009 gala for Equality Alabama, an organization working for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. More...
The United Steelworkers Union has called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to look into illegal anti-union activities at a Colombian coal mine operated by the Birmingham, Ala.-based Drummond Co., which has been dogged by charges of human rights abuses. More...
The retail giant responsible for damaging an ancient Indian mound in Alabama to get fill dirt for a new store in its Sam's Club chain has damaged culturally significant Native American sites before -- and it's not alone. More...
New research by scientists with Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology details hazards from the coal ash spilled last year from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant. The findings come as TVA considers shutting down some of its older coal plants. More...
Officials in Oxford, Ala. appear to be backing away from controversial plans to destroy a 1,500-year-old ceremonial Indian monument in order to use the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club. Meanwhile, a costly sinkhole has been discovered at the store's construction site. More...
Despite raucous protests, members of Congress are moving ahead with town hall meetings this week, with events today in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. Help Facing South cover these events! More...
A controversial development deal in Oxford, Ala. involves bulldozing a 1,500-year-old Native American sacred monument and using the dirt as fill for a new link in the Wal-Mart chain. More...
The conservative Republican from South Carolina broke ranks with the Judiciary Committee's other Republicans yesterday to approve Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the high court. How much did his state's changing demographics have to do with it? More...
A new report by the Sentencing Project finds that an unprecedented number of prisoners are serving life sentences. More...
Thousands of low-income workers earning a minimum wage got a boost in their wages as the national minimum wage rose to $7.25. Yet, one group remains excluded -- tipped workers have a national minimum wage that has been frozen at $2.13 for 18 years. More...
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has led his party's hostile questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, charging her with bias because she's acknowledged that being Latina influences the way she thinks. But what about Sessions' own well-documented racial bias? More...
As the recession deepened across the country in 2008, the nation saw a shift in its homeless populations to include more families and more rural and suburban areas. More...
Dr. Regina Benjamin, winner of numerous honors including a MacArthur Genius Award, will be an important voice in the debate over health care reform. More...
Unemployed people in Alabama and Mississippi are finding themselves in dire straits because their states turned down federal stimulus aid to expand unemployment insurance. More...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a plan to dump 3 million tons of toxic coal ash from last year's massive Tennessee spill in an impoverished Black Belt county -- but local residents and officials are fighting back in creative ways. More...
Engineers say the massive ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant last December was caused by a unique set of factors, but watchdogs are skeptical. Are other disasters waiting to happen at U.S. coal plants? More...
Opponents of the "public option" for health care say that it would hurt competition. But in fact, most health insurance markets fall under what the Department of Justice considers a "highly-concentrated market," or near-monopoly. More...
As the debate rages over health care reform, a new study by a group of Harvard doctors found that several major health and life-insurance companies in both the United States and overseas have nearly $4.5 billion invested in tobacco stocks. More...
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