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About 100 people attended a service to honor the memories of five people who were lynched in the county more than a century ago.

A memorial was held last Saturday morning at the Chatham County Industrial and Agricultural Fairgrounds to mourn the victims of lynchings.

The next battle in Alabama: equalizing the vaccine Updated on Mar 16, 2021; Published on Mar 16, 2021 Uniontown Mayor Chris Jones says many people in his town are unwilling to get a vaccine Sarah Whites-Koditschek Twitter Share Ketrice Burrell sits in her car in the parking lot of the local Family Dollar store, one of the only businesses in Uniontown. She chats through the driver-seat window with friends who pass by. Burrell was scheduled to get a vaccine at a clinic down the street earlier...

Feb 24, 2021 4:59 PM EDT “‘Are we going to be guinea pigs for the vaccine?’” For months, Dr. James Hildreth’s sister had been asking questions like this. While public health officials were urging Americans to take measures to help stop the coronavirus, high rates of infection within Black communities fueled his sister’s mistrust, said Hildreth, the president of Meharry Medical College, an historically Black institution in Nashville. She had no desire ...

Alabama man extradited from Michigan on rape charges Updated Feb 04, 2021; Decatur police say a Falkville man is back in Alabama on charges related to a rape last July. Michael Lee Tyson, 20, was arrested in Michigan Jan. 20 and returned to Decatur Tuesday. He is being held in the Morgan County Correctional Facility on $15,000 bond. According to police, the investigation began after a report was filed last July 7 on the alleged rape of a juvenile. The investigation determined Tyson, 20, who wa...

Family of Tuskegee Syphilis Study participant say they’ll take COVID-19 vaccine © ABC Lillie Tyson Head pictured with family photos. Lillie Tyson Head and her daughter, Carmen Head Thornton, have reason to be skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccine. After all, it was Head’s father, Freddie Lee Tyson, who was unknowingly recruited into the now-infamous Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. A sharecropper in Alabama in 1932, Tyson was one of 623 Black men recruited for the U.S. Public Health study a...

biggest stars and most important awards, well break it all down with an expert who will be on the red carpet. very good day to you and happy friday. im kristen welker in washington today for andrea mitchell. in just under an hour the clinton presidential library will begin to release 33,000 pages of records that were withheld until last year because of legal provisions. the records are expected to include memos to then president bill clinton from his advisers and perhaps memos from t...

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