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The National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has designated Thursday, April 4th, as the National Day of Pilgrimage to Save Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. To help save Section 5, the Coalition is asking all leaders to make a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. for a rally [...]
On February 27th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires pre-clearance from the federal government before states can take action that might reduce the Black vote. The case was initiated by Alabama officials who sought to prevent the reelection of the [...]
Hank Sanders, Alabama State Senator representing Selma and Dallas County and eight other West Alabama counties, is challenging the building of a Monument to General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Sanders said, “Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the richest slave dealers in the South.” “He further stated that, “Under General Nathan Bedford [...]
Special to the Democrat by: John Zippert, Co-Publisher Over one hundred grantees, staff and friends of the Southern Partners Fund marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday, June 23 to protest Alabama’s HB 56 and HB 568 anti-immigration laws. The Southern Partners Fund (SPF) is an Atlanta based foundation, owned [...]
At 5:00 p.m. on June 18, approximately 200 people gathered in the Greene County High School Auditorium to support the 3 mill Ad Valorem Tax Referendum scheduled to be on the ballot for Nov. 6, 2012 General Election. The purpose of this tax is to help build a new high school for Greene County. The [...]
Hundreds are expected to gather in Montgomery on Saturday, June 30, 2012 to make sure Alabama does not go back to the past. Leaders from 27 organizations have come together in what they call SOS (Save Our Selves Summit). The thrusts of the Summit is to form a stronger coalition across social, class, age, gender [...]
At its Spring Convention, Saturday, February 4, 2012 in Montgomery, Alabama New South Coalition screened and endorsed statewide, congressional and state district candidates for the March 13 Primary Election. The endorsees included President Barack Obama, Harry Lyon for Supreme Court Chief Justice, Lucy Baxley for Public Service Commission President, Charlie Holley for [...]
By Senator Hank Sanders A coalition of 25 Alabama organizations sponsored a state-wide Save Ourselves Summit (SOS) on November 19, 2011. It was a powerful success with a great cross-section of people participating productively. That was just beginning. Among other matters, SOS resolved to facilitate a national Selma to Montgomery March to challenge the increasing [...]
Senator Hank Sanders, speaking at the kick-off of the Auburn segment of the “Journey of Hope—from Violence to Healing” at the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on January 8, 2012, announced that in addition to the moratorium bill and other death penalty related bills, which he has filed for years in the legislature, he would this [...]
The Black Belt Community Foundation will host its tenth Community Grant Award Ceremony on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:00 pm in the Hank Sanders Technology Center on the campus of Wallace Community College in Selma, AL. BBCF is proud to highlight the most diverse group of grantees in BBCF history. These forty-five organizations [...]
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