Tag: Alabama

(AURN News) — On May 6, 1931, baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama. Mays began his professional…

(AURN News) — Students interested in earning an HBCU degree without relocating may soon have more options, as a new initiative expands…

(AURN News) — On this day, Feb. 5, 1934, baseball legend Hank Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama. Widely regarded as one…

(AURN News) — Zora Neale Hurston died Jan. 28, 1960 — 66 years ago — leaving behind one of the most important…

Rosa Parks will be honored with a statue at Alabama’s Capitol in Montgomery — the first monument of a woman on the…

(AURN News) — George Hardy, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen who flew combat missions in three wars, has died at…

Fear rippled through Black college campuses today. At least six HBCUs — Alabama State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University, Clark Atlanta…

At a White House press conference in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump announced Space Command’s move to Huntsville, Alabama. He then…

On July 4, 1881, Booker T. Washington — a formerly enslaved person turned pioneering educator — founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial…

On June 17, 1957, the Tuskegee Boycott began. In response to a gerrymandering plan passed by the Alabama Legislature that targeted Black…

The Trump administration just flushed the nation’s first environmental justice, civil rights settlement, literally. The Department of Justice has terminated a historic…

On February 4, 1913, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her defining moment came on December 1, 1955,…