Alabama voting access improves after long struggles
Outside of federal intervention and the pandemic, the state has seldom made it easier to vote.
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Outside of federal intervention and the pandemic, the state has seldom made it easier to vote.
As a young attorney, Gray helped defend some of the biggest names of the civil rights movement. If his life had a motto, it would be, as he often says, "To destroy everything segregated I could find."
A civil and human rights organization, calls for a federal investigation of police brutality; a former chief brags of shooting a Black person 119 times.
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe is talking with members of the civil rights generation including Fred Gray, the legal icon who once represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.
I met Fred Gray on July 10, 2019, and it is a highlight in my life. I had heard about him through mutual friends. I had taught dozens of university classes on ethics that began by recounting his work to redress a major ethical lapse in the history of medicine.Three years ago, we had a