Mobile demonstrators call for repeal of Alabama’s monument protection law
A small group of demonstrators gathered in downtown Mobile on a Sunday evening to call for the repeal of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act and the removal of statues and…
Five Facts About the Bridges and Tunnels That Connect Mobile to the Eastern Shore
A look back at how the Cochrane Bridge, the Causeway and two underwater river tunnels transformed travel across Mobile Bay over the last century.
Mobile Police Identify Woman Killed in I-10 Crash Near George Wallace Tunnel
Mobile police identified a 24-year-old woman ejected from a pickup truck after a rear-end crash on I-10 near the George Wallace Tunnel.
Lurleen B. Wallace: The Story of Alabama’s First and Only Female Governor
More than half a century after her death, Alabama has still elected only one woman as governor: Lurleen B. Wallace, the state’s 46th chief executive, who took office in January…
Mobile Native Vivian Malone Jones Remembered as a Civil Rights Pioneer
Mobile native Vivian Malone Jones helped change the history of higher education in Alabama when she entered the University of Alabama in 1963 and became its first Black graduate two…
Kenyen Brown Sworn In as the Southern District’s First Black U.S. Attorney
Kenyen Brown took the oath as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, becoming the first Black person to hold the post, with a public ceremony expected to follow…
Pierre Pelham, 1929-2009: The Chatom Lawyer Who Ran the Alabama Senate
Pierre Pelham, the Harvard-trained lawyer from Chatom who served two terms in the Alabama Senate and became its president pro tem, died at 80. Friends and rivals recalled a formidable…
A Chickasaw Politician’s Quiet Campaign to Free a Louisiana Governor
Former Mobile County Tax Assessor Ken Malone planned a public crusade to free imprisoned ex-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards. After a two-hour prison visit in 2007, he agreed to fight quietly…
Alabama’s Longest-Serving Judge to Leave the Mobile Bench Three Months Early
Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae, appointed by George Wallace 41 years earlier and the longest continuously serving judge in Alabama history, planned to step down from the Mobile bench on…