Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The day after Trayveka Stanley’s mother died, she was devastated. She was having trouble coping with her loss and needed time to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Monument to Freedom serves as the focus of a private dedication for the Equal Justice Initiative on June 19, 2024.

Imagine walking into a courthouse for jury duty and finding yourself surrounded by scenes depicting your enslaved ancestors. That’s what many black people in Jefferson County, Alabama, have been ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal ...

In a lawsuit filed this week, a group of current and former Alabama prisoners say they have been coerced into providing cheap labor to the state... Prisoners are suing Alabama over forced labor, ...

Alabama is funding a memorial to honor the survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, and officials are now seeking artists to design it. According to information provided by the Alabama Historical ...

Anna Clinkman graduated with an advanced diploma from her Birmingham homeschool group. But when she got to college in the early 2000s, she had to take remedial math. “I literally did not understand ...

Visitors to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park wind a serpentine path past art pieces depicting the lives of enslaved people in America and historic exhibits, including two cabins where the enslaved ...

MONTGOMERY -- The Alabama Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday passed separate resolutions apologizing for slavery. Each body could now debate the other's resolution, and if one of them ...

In Alabama lawyers are working with prisoners to end the practice of slavery for incarcerated people in that state. We talk with CJ Sandley, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional ...

A group of current and former Alabama prisoners are alleging that the state's prison labor practices amount to a "modern-day form of slavery," according to a complaint filed in federal court this week ...