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01Dec/15

Hillary Clinton celebrates civil rights activist Rosa Parks

December 1, 2015PoliticsActivism, Activists, Alabama, Civil rights movement, Claudette Colvin, Community organizing, Georgia Gilmore, Hillary Clinton, Inez Baskin, March, Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery, Montgomery Alabama, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa, Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks Museum, United States, War/Conflictsmbale

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recalls the work of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, and says, “our work isn’t finished.”

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02Jul/15

BP settles U.S. 2010 oil spill claims for $18.7 bln

July 2, 2015EnvironmentAlabama, Attorney General, Bondi, BP, BP P.L.C., Carl Barbier, Companies, Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Confederate States of America, Deepwater Horizon, Deepwater Horizon litigation, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Disaster/Accident, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Industries, Law/Crime, Louisiana, Oil companies, Pam Bondi, Southern United States, States of the United States, Texas, Transocean, U.S. government, United States, USDsmbale

“We are thrilled with the settlement,” Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi says of the agreement with BP that addressed claims from the U.S. government and the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

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03Apr/15

Alabama death row inmate released after 30 years

April 3, 2015CrimeAlabama, Anthony Hinton, Anthony Ray Hinton, Birmingham, British people, Bryan Stevenson, Capital punishment in Alabama, Charles Howard Hinton, Criminal law, Equal Justice Initiative, food, Hinton, Law/Crime, Punishments, Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court, United Statessmbale

Innocent Alabama man, Anthony Hinton, walks free after almost 30 years on death row for murder.
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08Mar/15

On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed

March 8, 2015PoliticsActivism, Activists, Alabama, America, Barack Obama, civil rights leader, Civil rights movement, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Ferguson, Geography of Alabama, George W. Bush, Jim Clark, John Lewis, Laura, Liberalism in the United States, Malia, Marianne Robinson, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Michelle, Michelle Obama, Politics, president, Sasha, Selma, Selma Alabama, Selma to Montgomery marches, Social Issues, United States, Voting Rights Actsmbale

U.S. President Barack Obama observes the 50th anniversary of the civil rights confrontation in March 1965 in which police in Selma, Alabama beat protesters marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to demand voting rights for African Americans.
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