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FURNITURE RENTAL STORES ARE PREDATORY LENDERS The multi-billion
FURNITURE RENTAL STORES ARE PREDATORY LENDERS The multi-billion dollar rent-to-own industry sells televisions, appliances, computers, jewelry and fur...

EMANCIPATION AND THE BLACK CHURCH For those who yearned for
EMANCIPATION AND THE BLACK CHURCH For those who yearned for freedom, the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, seemed ...

Talladega taxpayers pleased with payday lender zoning
Talladega taxpayers pleased with payday lender zoning ordinance Why havent Gadsden City Council adressed Predator Lending? Alabama Appleseed, the Ta...

ONE DAY IN HISTORY James Weldon Johnson called The summer of
ONE DAY IN HISTORY James Weldon Johnson called The summer of 1919, The Red Summer That summer ushered in the greatest period of interracial violence...

Will Sears and/or J. C. Penney be in the Gadsden Mall next
Will Sears and/or J. C. Penney be in the Gadsden Mall next Christmas? Recent news stories show that American retail is in dire straits. Here are 16...

As Alabama fire deaths remain high, fire chiefs association
As Alabama fire deaths remain high, fire chiefs association launches info campaign Alabama had 84 fire fatalities in 2014 as of Wednesday, three more...

Anniston police investigating Friday shooting death Anniston
Anniston police investigating Friday shooting death Anniston police are investigating after a man was killed and his son was injured by gunshots on t...

There was a time when black athletes actually went to college to
There was a time when black athletes actually went to college to obtain an education. One of the great stories being told at Grambling University invo...

For most of America’s history, African Americans who received a
For most of America’s history, African Americans who received a college education could only get it from an HBCU. Today, HBCUs remain one of the s...