SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS The search for a missing Enterprise toddler has taken a troubling turn as police confirm the child’s mother is being detained for questioning. Genises Nova Reid — also spelled Genesis by authorities […]
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SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS An Army sergeant major living in Enterprise, Alabama, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after admitting to secretly recording female family members and houseguests inside his home. Sgt. […]
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SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS What began as a festive Mardi Gras weekend in downtown Mobile ended in violence Sunday night, as two separate shootings left seven people wounded and one alleged robbery suspect dead, city officials […]
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Claudette Colvin, a 16-year-old civil rights activist, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks did the same, and later joined three other women as plaintiffs in the Browder v. Gayle lawsuit that ended the city’s bus segregation.
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The Islamic Scholarship Fund (ISF) is offering scholarships and grants to American Muslim students pursuing majors in public policy, public interest, law, media, and film to increase American Muslim representation in government and media, and has awarded $3.5 million in scholarships and grants to over 570 students and 900 alumni.
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