50 Years Forward: Spontaneous Blackness Erupts At Montgomery Raceway
Alabama I’m very familiar with this Raceway gas station in west Montgomery which is located at the intersection of Mobile Highway and South Boulevard. I […]
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50 Years Forward: 1963 Birmingham Church Survivor Shuns Congressional Gold Medal
Alabama Gimme dat money! “BIRMINGHAM, AL (AP) -The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls is seeking millions in […]
Rand Paul Speaks To Howard University
District of Corruption … claims Obama has failed blacks, GOP is the party of Lincoln, civil rights and equality, Democrats are the real racists for […]
50 Years Forward: Rick & Bubba Show, Steven Hoyt, and Honda Indy Grand Prix
Alabama Final Update: The Birmingham City Council has approved $300,000 in funding for the Honda Indy Grand Prix: “BIRMINGHAM, Alabama –The Birmingham City Council has approved […]
50 Years Forward: Sexual Harassment at the Birmingham Public Library
Alabama In the video below, Barbara Ann Wilson describes her experiences working as an employee of the Birmingham Public Library. In 2010, Wilson filed a […]
Funniest Negro Criminal Names
Alabama I can’t resist sharing this: “Two Montgomery teenagers are charged in the first-degree robbery of a person in the 2600 block of Vaughn Road […]
Al.com vs. SBPDL
Alabama It was only a matter of time. We’re really getting under their skin. Note: SBPDL and OD are going to shine a spotlight as […]
50 Years Forward: Losing The MotoGP
Alabama OD’s probe into racial favoritism and public funding of sporting events in Birmingham, Alabama continues to turn up some interesting results with the assistance […]
Obama’s Sons Beat Elderly White Man In Jacksonville
Florida The temperature is warming up … the “youths” of America, the Trayvons, are crawling the streets again in Florida:
50 Years Forward: Behind The Purple Drapes, Race and Sports In The Tragic City
Alabama In recent weeks, OD has been taking a closer look at Birmingham, Alabama, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the events that were […]
Birmingham vs. Boise
Alabama This comparison of crime in Birmingham (AL) versus Boise (ID) and similar sized cities originated in a discussion in the comment section at al.com: […]
50 Years Forward: Selma Ranked Worst City For Business in Alabama
Alabama Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, Selma and Birmingham have been ranked among the worst cities for business in Alabama: “With every best […]
50 Years Forward: DBE Contractor Linked To Sign That Killed Luke Bresette
Alabama A few days ago, SBPDL.com speculated that Luke Bresette – the 10-year-old White boy from Kansas who died when a flight display sign collapsed […]
50 Years Forward: In Birmingham, 5 Years for Homicide
Alabama In light of the 50 Years Forward commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, OD and SBPDL are putting Birmingham, Alabama – where scenes […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham SCLC Prays To “Stop The Violence”
Alabama A few weeks ago, we saw that Montgomery was praying to change black culture and was poised to overtake Birmingham in 2013 for the […]
Montgomery’s White Resistance To Integration
Alabama This excerpt on the demise of segregation in Montgomery is from J. Mills Thornton III’s Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham Dumps Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Alabama It’s official. The Birmingham City Council, which leapt at the opportunity to support the scam that was Vulcan Bike Week, won’t be supporting the […]
Alabama Moves To Restore (Limited) Segregation
Alabama As someone who grew up in this area, I can say that the Alabama Accountability Act will have a far greater impact on the lives […]
Gate City Shooting
Alabama In a recurrent point of interest in “The Comeback Town,” I can’t improve on this description of the latest shooting in Birmingham’s Gate City community, which […]
Black Alabama Lawmaker’s Email: ‘Slave-Holding, Murdering, Adulterous, Baby-Raping, Snaggle-Toothed Kin Folk’
Alabama A White conservative from Jefferson County sends out a polite mass email asking Alabama state lawmakers to oppose gun control … a black state […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham City Council Rejects Funding Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Alabama Paul Kersey of SBPDL.com recently published his latest book on Amazon, The Tragic City: Birmingham, 1963-2013, which tells the true story of how the City […]
Historic Selma Struggles With Blight
Alabama When I last visited Selma in 2011, I was struck by the obvious decline of the city: the blighted homes, the abandoned shopping centers, […]
Congress Finally Reacts To Violence In Birmingham
Alabama Birmingham’s DWL community held a Memorial March last night in honor of the tragic and “senseless” shooting of Jarmaine Walton in Railroad Park: “BIRMINGHAM, […]
Trends With Benefits
Alabama NPR investigates Greensboro in Hale County (AL) where 1 in 4 working age adults are receiving a $1,000 disability check a month: “In rural […]
Negroes In Negroland (1868)
North Carolina Here’s the link to Hinton Rowan Helper’s less famous book, Negroes in Negroland (1868), which he wrote in the midst of Reconstruction in North Carolina. […]
Black Teens Murder Baby In Stroller In Brunswick, Georgia
Georgia H/T CofCC Even for the Black Undertow, this is a new low: “West earlier told reporters that the incident occurred at 9 a.m. Thursday […]
Montgomery Set To Surpass Murderham In Violent Crime
Alabama The City of Montgomery is on track to set a new record in 2013. For the first time in over a century, perhaps ever, […]
Montgomery Prays To Change (Black) Culture
Alabama “Now it is not an accident that one of the great marches of American history should terminate in Montgomery, Alabama. (Yes, sir) Just ten […]
Being White In Philly
Pennsylvania H/T SBPDL The black mayor of Philadelphia is trying to get the “Human Relations Commission” to shutdown the First Amendment over an article called “Being […]
Rand Paul Embraces Amnesty Again
District of Corruption I didn’t think much of Rand Paul’s grandstanding over Obama’s use of drones on American soil (a classic example of a political […]
Job Growth In Alabama Metros
Alabama David Sher, who runs The Comeback Town, has been making the argument for city-county consolidation in the Birmingham metro area on the basis that […]
Birmingham and Secession
Alabama Paul Kersey writes: “Black people will always follow white people wherever they may go, because the conditions found in a white community are preferable […]