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Alabama, Mississippi also honoring Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Day
The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.
Mississippi And Alabama Still Celebrate Confederate General Robert E. Lee Alongside MLK Day. Why?
Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
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Two states still honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Day. See which ones, why
How many Mississippi employees work from home? In 2 states, MLK Day also honors Robert E. Lee When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert E.
Alabama, Mississippi continue to celebrate Lee
The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general.
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Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...
Wife of 72-year-old veteran beaten to death by a cellmate in Alabama jail sues corrections officers
The wife of a 72-year-old veteran who was beaten to death by a cellmate in an Alabama jail has filed a civil rights lawsuit against three deputies working at the Macon County jail.
With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons
Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.

Presidential historian William Leuchtenburg dies

William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102
William E. Leuchtenburg, Eminent Presidential Historian and Ken Burns Consultant, Dies at 102
William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at 102.
Renowned presidential historian, UNC professor William E. Leuchtenburg dies at 102
William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102. Leuchtenburg was on the history department faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill for two decades,
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‘Teamwork, partnership’: Brookwood Elementary earns national honor
“Teamwork and partnership” nurture the culture that garnered Brookwood Elementary School the National Association of ESEA State Program Administrators Distinguished Schools Award, school officials said Wednesday about the “Excellence in Serving English Learners” award.
Andrew Jarecki Is Back with Jaw-Dropping Prison Exposé ‘The Alabama Solution' Out of Sundance
Charlotte Kaufman co-directs the harrowing Alabama prison doc headed for HBO and an Oscar campaign. "You say democracy dies in darkness. People die in darkness," Jarecki tells IndieWire.
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Alabama’s deadly prisons exposed through leaked prison cellphone video in ‘The Alabama Solution’
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman talk about their documentary, “The Alabama Solution,” that explores the terrible conditions of Alabama’s prison system through leaked cellphone video from inmates while at the L.A. Times Studios @ Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve.