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“Selma: A Bicentennial History” By: Alston Fitts III

By • Oct 23, 2019

“Selma: A Bicentennial History”

Author: Alston Fitts III

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Pages: 360

$39.95 (Cloth)

Alston Fitts, originally from Tuscaloosa, has lived and worked in Selma since the early 1970s. A trained scholar with a PhD from the University of Chicago, Fitts is an excellent choice for this one-volume, richly illustrated history of Selma.

Steve Flowers on Race and Religion in Alabama Politics

By Steve Flowers • May 30, 2017

Throughout the course of Alabama political history, there have been two pervasive and prevailing issues - race and religion. The race issue has remained dormant in Alabama politics for most of the first half of the 20th century...

Special Session date on lottery released, NAACP: Man convicted of church bombing shouldn't be freed

By MacKenzie Bates • Jul 29, 2016

Governor Bentley has set a date for the special session of the legislature. They will discuss proposals for creating a state lottery.  APR Student Reporter, Katie Willem has more...

Heatwave in Alabama, Alabama Courthouse bell dating to 1871 to be relocated

By MacKenzie Bates • Jul 21, 2016

Weather forecasters say conditions are going to be downright brutal for the next few days.  Central Alabama is expected to be under the influence of a subtropical ridge.  That could means temperatures approaching triple digits in some parts of the state starting today.

John DeBlock is with the National Weather Service in Birmingham. He says those temperatures don’t even include the heat index, which is how humidity makes it feel outside…

The Battle over History

By Stan Ingold