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>> lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. >> racialized violence is as old as the constitution. >> klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but its still happening. >> today, people are horrified of the police. its the modern day lynching. >> what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding im bold enough, and im going to make it change. >> beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the unite...

someone has taken a young man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? >> michael donald was an innocent good samaritan, not a thug. >> the mobile police department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. >> thats why we kept marching and protesting, letting them know we were going to take this lion down. >> the admitted klansmen turned to action as the words, guilty of capital murder, sank in. >> it was the first time since at...

Figures of Mobile is the first Alabama Democrat to get added to the program since Josh Segall in 2008.

Three candidates for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District faced each other in a forum hosted by the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning. Democratic primary run-off candidates Shomari Figures and House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, were both present, as was Republican Dick Brewbaker, a former state senator from Pike Road. Republican candidate Caroleene Dobson, […] The post Alabama 2nd Congressional District hopefuls address infrastructure, health c...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The 2024 Alabama Primary Runoff is set for Tuesday, April 16, but what does the election actually entail? What is a Runoff Election? According to Ballotpedia, “Nine states conduct runoff elections as part of their party nomination process. These runoffs occur when no candidate reaches the required threshold for victory.” The following […]

The most interesting and paramount race on the ballot in the March 5 primaries was the one for the new open 2nd Congressional District.

The most interesting and paramount race on the ballot in the March 5th primaries was the one for the new open 2nd Congressional District.

On the night of March 20, 1981, two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama, snatched Michael Donald at gunpoint while he was walking back to his sister’s house. He had gone out to pick up a pack of cigarettes at a nearby gas station. The Klansmen beat the Black 19-year-old, strangled him, and slit […] The post His Father Bankrupted the Klan. He Wants to Keep Fighting for Justice in Congress. appeared first on Capital B News.

After a Black teenager, Michael Donald, is found lynched in Mobile, AL in 1981, and local law enforcement fail to apprehend the killers, Donalds mother Beulah...

That i cared deeply about. but i wasnt communicating with, you know, civic leaders either in the black or the white communities, and there were two separate communities. >> it was really depressing. it was really -- it was really -- you couldnt eat. you couldnt -- you couldnt think of nothing else because our life had just come to a standstill. the mobile police department, they sat on it. and they would just call and say, we hadnt forgotten you, miss donald. we still working on the case. oh, ok...