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The Tuscaloosa News is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama. It is owned by Gannett. Tuscaloosa News headquarters seen from the Riverwalk. In 2012, Halifax Media Group acquired the Tuscaloosa News. Prior to that, the paper's owner was The New York Times Company. [2] The ...
Voted #1 Weekly Newspaper in Alabama by the Alabama Press Association. [citation needed] Cherokee County Herald: Centre: Weekly Chilton County News: Clanton: Weekly The Citizen of East Alabama: Phenix City: 1957 Weekly R.M. Greene Largest weekly newspaper in Alabama Clanton Advertiser: Clanton: Daily Clark County Democrat: Grove Hill 1856 ...
Ryland Randolph (1835 – April 5, 1903) was a newspaper publisher, Ku Klux Klan leader, and state legislator who lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.He used his newspaper, the Independent Monitor, to lambast Republicans during the Reconstruction era as carpetbaggers, scalawags, and freed blacks, and attacked fellow legislator Shandy Jones and others with a cartoon of them being lynched. [1]
Greenwood Cemetery is a city cemetery established in c. 1820 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.. [2] [3] It is the oldest cemetery in the city and is located near the First African Baptist Church. It has a historical marker erected in 1996 by City of Tuscaloosa, the Heritage Commission of Tuscaloosa County, and Cahaba Trace Commission. [4]
Alabama's first state organization of African American newspapers was the Alabama Colored Press Association, which was founded by the editors of nine papers in 1887. [2] However, the association ceased to function after two years, due to many of its key members having been driven out of the state by racist violence. [ 2 ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether federally mandated warnings on cigarette packs that graphically illustrate the health risks of smoking violate the ...
Magnolia Cemetery is a historic city cemetery located in Mobile, Alabama. Filled with many elaborate Victorian-era monuments, it spans more than 100 acres (40 ha). [ 3 ] It served as Mobile's primary, and almost exclusive, burial place during the 19th century. [ 3 ]
Tuscaloosa is also home to the Alabama Choir School. [78] Coleman Coliseum. Coleman Coliseum is a 15,383-seat multipurpose arena that serves as the city of Tuscaloosa's municipal civic center. Because the City of Tuscaloosa does not have a civic center, the demand for events grew rapidly and the coliseum doubled its capacity in the 1970s.