Feb 03 Harper Lee’s second novel, ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ to be published in July By Joshua Barajas Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee will finally publish a second book, 55 years after Scout lead Boo Radley home in "To Kill a Mockingbird," her publisher announced Tuesday. Continue reading
Jan 02 Paramount offering free ‘Selma’ screenings for Selma residents By Ruth Tam Two weeks after the film's limited Dec. 25 release, Paramount Pictures is offering free screenings of "Selma" to its namesake's residents. Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch 11:46 Return of the debtors’ prison? Many jailed for inability to pay fines By PBS NewsHour Cities across the country are increasingly turning to what are known as private probation companies to collect unpaid fines. But are indigent people ending up in jail because they can't afford to pay? Since NewsHour Weekend's first story on this… Continue watching
Dec 12 Gwen’s Take: Selma — then and now By Gwen Ifill There is a shock of recognition in the scenes that begin and end “Selma,” the elegiac new work by filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Even if you know only a little about your history, the events surrounding the 1965 Selma to Montgomery,… Continue reading
Nov 12 Watch Supreme Court considers line between racial and partisan gerrymandering By PBS NewsHour After the 2010 census, the Republican-led Alabama legislature redrew state legislative districts. But their plan was challenged for being a racial gerrymander and violating voting rights. To examine the case's move to the Supreme Court, Marcia Coyle of The National… Continue watching
Oct 03 State investigators dismissed prisoners’ complaints of sexual abuse By Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON — When inmates at a notorious Alabama women's prison came forward to complain of sexual abuse and harassment, state investigators time and again classified the complaints as unfounded or unsubstantiated and often recommended that the matters be closed without… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch News Wrap: Slow-moving storm drowns parts of Southeast with record rainfall By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Apr 10 Rosa Parks’ belongings, potentially worth millions, sit in NYC warehouse By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press NEW YORK -- At a time when interest in civil rights memorabilia is rekindled, a lifetime's worth of Rosa Parks' belongings - among them her Presidential Medal of Freedom - sits in a New York warehouse, unseen and unsold. Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch 50 Years Ago, Baptist Church Bombing Shakes Nation Remembering Civil Rights figures on the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham bombing. Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch News Wrap: FBI Rescues Boy After Week-Long Hostage Standoff in Alabama In other news Monday, the FBI stormed a bunker in Alabama in order to rescue a 5-year-old boy from a week-long hostage standoff. Also, a suicide bomber in Iraq struck an anti al-Qaeda milita, killing at least 22 and wounding… Continue watching