My @colorlines coverage: #Alabama House Approves Apology for #RecyTaylor #rape #racism

#Alabama House Passes Apology for #RecyTaylor’s Jim Crow-Era Gang #Rape /via @change

My latest RT @Colorlines: #RecyTaylor Gets a Personal Sorry, But No Apology From Alabama #racism #rape

Possible Apology to #RecyTaylor for Obstruction of Justice in Racist Gang #Rape #breakingnews #alabama

My op-ed in an #Alabama paper w/news & comment re: possible state apology to #RecyTaylor for 1944 #rape

At 91, Recy Taylor May Finally See #Alabama Acknowledge Her 1944 #Rape <my latest at Colorlines #racism

RT @coldcaseproject: FBI to reopen investigation into beating death of Rev. James Reeb in Selma 1965 #alabama #coldcase

Taylor was one of many black women attacked by white men during an era in which sexual assault was used to informally enforce Jim Crow segregation. Their pain galvanized an anti-rape crusade that ultimately took a back seat to the push to dismantle officially sanctioned separation of the races, and slowly faded from the headlines.

Many of these rape victims never got justice and the desire for closure is still there, more than 60 years later — leaving some to wonder what, if anything, can be done to address the wrongs done to them.

“I didn’t get nothing, ain’t nothing been done about it,’’ Taylor, now 90, said in a telephone interview from her central Florida home. The AP is revealing Taylor’s identity because she has publicly identified herself as a victim of sexual assault.

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In a brief news conference, Mueller declined to go into details of any specific investigation from the civil rights era.

Six months before his death in June, former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark, whose violent clashes with civil rights activists in Selma angered a nation, gave a statement defending a former state trooper accused of committing murder during a 1965 protest.

Across the state I heard similar stories: fellow Alabamans sent in their applications after having been told, correctly, by voting rights groups that a new state law required an official reply within 50 days. But months later they were still disenfranchis

Hartford began the march from Selma, but had to stop seven miles later as the group reached its first campsite, at the farm of David Hall.

profile of Jerry Mitchell

Approximately 25 county voting registrars came to the state Capitol for a hearing Thursday to object to new rules that would empower Secretary of State Nancy Worley to fire them.

Former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry, serving life imprisonment for a church bombing that killed four black girls in 1963, was hospitalized in critical condition after his health deteriorated, prison officials said Thursday.

Gov. Bob Riley said Wednesday that he supports a plan to remove segregationist language from Alabama's constitution and doesn't see how it could make it easier for a judge to order tax increases for schools.

Jackson said the Montgomery office would work to build a "New South agenda" on a range of public policy issues, from rising health-care costs to affordable housing to greater minority participation in the region's burgeoning automotive industry.

Jefferson County has added nearly 19,000 voters to its rolls since the start of the year, and county Registrar Nell Hunter says registration has stepped up in the past two weeks.

Many residents are signing up so quickly that the county registrar's office is piled high with applications. The applications increased by 550 percent in September compared to a non-election year. The backlog has employees working overtime.

The number of registered voters has swelled from more than 2.2 million at the start of October 2000 to more than 2.75 million at the beginning of this month.

Although Democrats are aware that political observers don't expect Kerry to win in Alabama . . . Ray and his fellow Republicans aren't taking expert opinions for granted

However, there is no indication why they left, but the personnel office also says it has received more complaints, substantially more complaints from workers in Worley's office than any other Secretary of State.

was given the choice of resigning or being fired. She chose to resign, she said, to avoid the stigma of being fired. But she reconsidered a short while later and phoned Worley, saying she wanted to withdraw her resignation.

In Tuesday's municipal election, the opponents of Phuong Tan Huynh, Bayou La Batre's first-ever Asian-American candidate, challenged the ballots of nearly 50 Asian voters. They claimed that the voters weren't U.S. citizens, weren't city residents or had f

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