Keisha Stokes-Hough is a deputy director of legal management at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
A federal trial court asked the state high court to weigh in on whether police violated the law when they arrested a man who was watering his neighbors’ garden.
The constitution’s extensive amendments and inclusion of local government rules make Alabama’s constitution the country’s longest
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Arrest of Black Pastor for Refusing to Show ID Reaches Alabama Supreme Court
A federal trial court asked the state high court to weigh in on whether police violated the law when they arrested a man who was watering his neighbors’ garden.
The Alabama Constitution: Despite a Century of Updates, Traces of its Racist Past Linger
The constitution’s extensive amendments and inclusion of local government rules make Alabama’s constitution the country’s longest