Alabama

Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer who defied bus segregation, dies at 86

Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin's 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others.

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Claudette Colvin, who was attending Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in 1955 when she was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, visits the school in Montgomery, Alabama, US February 3, 2005.
Authorities seize guns and ammunition from Alabama resident linked with credible threats against synagogues, October 27, 2025.

FBI, sheriffs arrest Alabama man, seize weapons after threats of violence against synagogues

An Alabama man was arrested after allegedly planning violent attacks against synagogues across several states. Authorities say he stockpiled weapons and ammunition.

|ByJAMES GENN
The seal of the US Justice Department is seen on the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room before a news conference with the Attorney General in Washington, January 24, 2023.

Alabama man sentenced for conspiring to transport goods to Iran, violating US sanctions

Hunt was sentenced to five years in prison. He conspired with two Tehran-based companies to export US-manufactured industrial equipment for use in Iran’s oil, gas, and petrochemical industries.

|ByARIELA OHRENSTEIN
Ambulances Parked Outside NYU Langone Hospital. Transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney.

Alabama woman becomes third living person to receive genetically modified pig kidney

Towana Looney has become the recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney, marking a milestone in the field of xenotransplantation.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Alabama school faces backlash over Nazi salutes to US flag

A Jewish student that raised alarm about a lesson that involved the Bellamy Salute was told to apologize by the school, and received death and arson threats.

FEBRUARY 13, 2022ByMICHAEL STARR
German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

COVID vaccine encouragers should be greeted with guns - MTG

"In the South we all love our second amendment rights and we're not real big on strangers showing up on our front door, are we?" said US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

AUGUST 8, 2021ByTZVI JOFFRE
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, February 5, 2021.

Israeli teen outstanding player in US Wheelchair Basketball Championship

"This was one of the most challenging years of my life... to move to a strange county, with a different language and new team, and learn how to be responsible and independent."

MARCH 23, 2021ByJOSH ARONSON
Israeli teenager Amit Vigoda (#24) is studying at the University of Texas at Arlington while playing hoops for the school in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.

Biden marks Selma anniversary with order to expand voting access

Biden's order comes on the 56th anniversary of the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" when state troopers and police attacked civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama.

MARCH 7, 2021ByREUTERS
US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, February 5, 2021.

In Flo Milli’s new single, samples of Zero Mostel’s ‘If I Were a Rich Man’

The 20-year-old rising star, whose real name is Tamia Monique Carter and is not Jewish, uses the chorus of the Zero Mostel recording of the song.

JANUARY 16, 2021ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
ZERO MOSTEL in Fiddler

Alabama students hosting 'COVID parties' to see who gets infected fastest

"They put money in a pot, and they try to get COVID. Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot. It makes no sense," a Tuscaloosa council member said. "They're intentionally doing it."

JULY 2, 2020ByIDAN ZONSHINE
Teenagers partying 521

Video shows Alabama teens drawing swastikas on a boy’s back

A video showing a group of Alabama teenagers drawing swastikas on a boy’s back was posted to Snapchat.

MAY 15, 2020ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Swastika on a wall (illustrative)