The annual Alabama New South Coalition (ANSC) Spring Membership Convention drew over 200 participants engaging in current topical workshops and in selecting state officers to guide the organization in the next two years. ANSC state officers are: Dr. Roberta Watts, President; Alphonzo Morton, III, First Vice-President; Norma Jackson, Second Vice-President, John Zippert, Treasurer; Sharon Calhoun, [...]
After six years of working, waiting and planning, there was a ground breaking on Sunday afternoon, December 4, 2011 for the Black Belt Family Farm Fruit and Vegetable Marketing and Innovation Center on Highway 80, seven miles west of Selma. The Marketing and Innovation Center was conceived and developed as a project of [...]
Special to the Democrat By John Zippert, Co-Publisher Last Friday, October 28, 2011, Congresswomen Terri Sewell conducted a day long farm tour crisscrossing her Alabama Black Belt counties to meet with farmers to get their views on the upcoming 2012 Farm Bill legislation. Sewell is a member of the House Agriculture Committee [...]
A delegation of Greene County Industrial Development Authority Board and staff members joined hundreds of others who attended a celebration last Wednesday at the Mercedes Benz plant in Vance, Alabama. The celebration marked the production launch of the third generation of the M-Class SUV which are produced by 2,800 workers at the plant in [...]
Special to the Democrat by: John Zippert, Co-Publisher At the beginning and end of a half hour conference call with the Black Press on Monday October 18, 2010, President Barack Obama urged Black newspaper editors and reporters to urge their readers to vote in the November general election. The call was part of a concentrated [...]
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund celebrated its 43rd Annual Meeting this past weekend in Birmingham and at the organization’s Rural Training and Research Center at Epes, Alabama. On Saturday, August 21, Shirley Sherrod, a former Federation staff member and recently dismissed Georgia State Director of USDA Rural Development and Ben Jealous, [...]
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Greene County leaders ask for Sen. Scott Beason’s resignation after racist comment
Spiver Gordon, President of the local SCLC Chapter and other Greene County community leaders including Hattie Edwards, Mayor Pro-tem of Eutaw, Lorenzo French, Scott Muhammad and John Zippert held a press conference Friday at the Courthouse to call for the resignation of Senator Scott Beason after he made racist remarks about the Black [...]