SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Joe Biden and other civil rights leaders decried the Supreme Court’s recent examination of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act at events held to mark the 48th anniversary of the 1965 civil rights march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala. Biden spoke to a crowd in the Wallace State Community College gymnasium for the [...]

There are counties in the Black Belt region of Alabama where as much as 30 percent of their population lacks basic prose literacy skills, according to a report released in 2009 by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nisa Miranda, director of the University Center for Economic Development, said the high illiteracy rates in the counties of Alabama’s Black Belt [...]

The West Alabama Narcotics Task Force, the unit that headed Tuesday’s record-breaking drug raids on and off of the University of Alabama campus, is the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation into their accounting practices, the FBI confirmed Wednesday. The FBI probe, which began in December, is the result of discrepancies found in a November audit of the task force’s [...]

I hadn’t shot a gun since Boy Scout camp eight years ago. Born and raised in Miami, Fla., hunting is not something that was handed down from my father to me as it is often in the Deep South. For us, the purpose of guns could usually be summed up by their usage in drive-by shootings and home invasions that [...]

UA students on both sides of the abortion debate will be closely watching a bill the Alabama legislature is expected to vote on in Montgomery, Tuesday. The bill, HB-57, also known as the Women’s Health and Safety Act, is part of a larger national trend to impose new regulations on abortion facilities. These new regulations are referred to as TRAP [...]