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‘A historic day’: Montgomery, Alabama, elects its first African-American mayor

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Montgomery, a city where more than half the population is black and known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected an African American to the highest position in municipal government for the first time in its 200-year history. (more…)

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Alabama city told to keep Confederate street name or face $25,000 fine

The Republican attorney general is threatening Montgomery after the city renamed Jeff Davis Avenue

Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It recently renamed a street which had been named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis and named it instead after a groundbreaking civil rights lawyer: Fred D. Gray.

The Republican-run state government isn’t happy and wants to fine Montgomery $25,000.

Alabama’s 48th attorney general, Steve Marshall, has written to Montgomery officials saying the city had violated a state law protecting Confederate monuments and other longstanding memorials and must pay a $25,000 fine by 8 December, “otherwise, the attorney general will file suit on behalf of the state”.

Montgomery’s mayor, Steven Reed, the first African American to serve in the post, hit back, saying switching the name was the right thing to do.

“It was important that we show, not only our residents here, but people from afar that this is a new Montgomery,” Reed told the Associated Press, adding that the name change was his idea.

If I were Mayor Steven Reed I’d tell AL Attorney Gen. Marshall, “see you in court, chump!”.

If Republicans seem to want a very visible trial where they are publicly defending the name of a treasonous individual who was the figurehead for a racist slaveholding entity taking up arms against the USA – then let them do so. Republicans seem to enjoy being on the wrong side of history.

Even in Alabama people are gradually getting tired of being under the historical yoke of the glorification of the dead and decrepit Confederacy.

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City halves its coronavirus case rate after month of mask policy

Mayor Steven Reed of Montgomery, Alabama, describes how his executive order for a mask requirement and other mitigation measures constrained the spread of coronavirus in his city even as the state's numbers grew out of control.

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Alabama's reopening ambitions strain city's hospitals

Mayor Steven Reed of Montgomery, Alabama, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the state's growing number of cases is pushing his city's hospital resources to the limit even as the state continues to reopen.

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Steven Reed Sworn In As First Black Mayor Of Montgomery, Alabama

Reed's inauguration is historic in the majority-Black city’s 200-year history.