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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BP settles U.S. 2010 oil spill claims for $18.7 bln
“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.
Alabama death row inmate released after 30 years
Innocent Alabama man, Anthony Hinton, walks free after almost 30 years on death row for murder.
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On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed
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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