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Deion Sanders Pushed Away By Opposing Coach During Handshake

The Tigers’ coach was surprised by the response from Alabama State’s coach following JSU’s win on Saturday.

Sports Illustrated

‘It’s good to think strategically’: Thomas E Ricks on civil rights and January 6

In his new book, the historian considers the work of Martin Luther King and others through the lens of military thought

The Guardian - US

US jury convicts man in deadly Alabama kidnapping of child

An Alabama man has been convicted on two federal charges in the 2019 kidnapping that led to the death of a 3-year-old girl who disappeared from a birthday party

The Independent UK

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Friday Night Notes: Best St. John Bosco, Mater Dei prospects, SEC rankings, major visits, and more

The latest look at high school football recruiting from around the country.

USA Today Sports Media Group

10 Best College Football Predictions Against The Spread Week 6

10 best predictions and picks against the spread and point totals for the Week 6 college football games.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Alabama inmates go on strike to protest ‘deplorable’ conditions, unpaid labour

Guards asleep on duty, meagre meals and cells covered in filth: incarcerated people across the southern US state of Alabama have refused to work since September 26 in protest against shocking conditions in overcrowded facilities, including violence, neglect and poor hygiene. The strike has brought prisons, which depend on and…

France 24

Big Ten football and big game expert predictions and picks for Week 6

Time for our writers to give their predictions and picks for all the Big Ten games and the best six of the national games for Week 6 of the CFP season. #B1G

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Alabama prisoners strike over ‘horrendous’ conditions

Prisoners refuse to work for no pay in prison jobs in food service, laundry and maintenance

The Guardian - US

Commentary: The threat to democracy that no one’s talking about

Few people would characterize the conservative South as enlightened when it comes to electoral politics. But the truth is that in some respects it is more advanced than many Democratic strongholds. While states like Oregon and New York continue to employ closed party primary elections, even as the electorate becomes…

Tribune News Service

John Henry Ramirez executed by lethal injection after stabbing dad-of-nine 29 times

John Henry Ramirez was sentenced to death at about midnight this evening in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, Texas, for the fatal stabbing of Pablo Castro in Corpus Christi in 2004

Daily Mirror

Top-5 most watchable college football games of Week 6

Week 6 is loaded with compelling matchups and we're here to give you our picks for the most watchable games this Saturday.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Blues for an Alabama Sky review – Harlem renaissance drama is a tale for our times

A group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton

The Guardian - UK

Blues for an Alabama Sky at the National Theatre review: deliciously funny and deeply affecting

Lynette Linton’s beautiful, light-footed production is a bittersweet delight

Evening Standard

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pummels Alabama attorneys over ‘race blindness’ in major voting rights case

The newest justice shot down Alabama’s ‘race blind’ arguments in a landmark redistricting case

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Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears open to making it harder to create majority Black electoral districts

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court’s liberals mount defense of Voting Rights Act, but outcome of challenge is unclear

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s liberals, including new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, strongly defended the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, arguing that Alabama should be required to draw election maps that give Black voters a chance at equal representation.

The Guardian - US

US supreme court hears case that could gut voting rights for minority groups

In Merrill v Milligan, the court will decide whether Alabama’s new congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court’s newest justice pushes back as it considers curbing Black voting districts

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative wing considered limiting the creation of majority-Black voting districts, even amid forceful pushback from new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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The Independent UK

Revival sought for pastor's lawsuit over COVID restrictions

An outspoken Christian conservative attorney from Alabama wants a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor's damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions

USA Today Sports Media Group

Boston rookie JD Davison on Marcus Smart, Jayson Tatum mentoring him

Smart and Tatum have evidently been helping the Alabama guard with his transition to the NBA.

Roll Call

Supreme Court told minority representation at stake in case - Roll Call

Potential ruling on Voting Rights Act could “obliterate” many majority-minority congressional districts, one attorney said.

Axios

SCOTUS could further erode voting rights. Here’s what to know

The ruling will also carry implications for how other states draw their congressional maps.

WEKU

The landmark Voting Rights Act faces further dismantling at the Supreme Court

The law is once again on the chopping block — this time on the question of how state legislatures may draw congressional district lines when the state's voters are racially polarized.

Axios

Here are 5 Supreme Court cases to watch this term

The court has another term that could be just as contentious as its last.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court to weigh use of race in congressional redistricting

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama that could further weaken a federal law meant to prevent racial discrimination in elections.

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