racism in Alabama

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville backed off his defense of white nationalists, telling reporters in the Capitol that white nationalists "are racists."

Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race. Some doctors don't take their concerns seriously. Black babies are more likely to die, and also far more likely to be born prematurely.

Queen Elizabeth and NASA astronaut Jim McDivitt were joined by an iconic University of Alabama student on the Associated Press list of notable people who died in 2022.

John Patterson had been attorney general of Alabama at age 29. Wallace was making his first foray in the race for governor and so was Patterson. But…