AL Political Reporter: “A coalition of numerous Alabama groups will deliver three petitions to the governor’s office this morning calling for transparency during executions and protesting the use of nitrogen hypoxia. The “Pull Back The Curtains” petition demands greater transparency in Alabama executions. The groups have launched the petition renewing the demand that media and other…

AL Political Reporter: “Two Alabama men and volunteer fighters in Ukraine who were captured by Russian-backed separatists during fighting near the city of Kharkiv in June have been released and transported to Saudi Arabia as part of a prisoner of war exchange between Ukraine and Russia, according to a statement from relatives and the Alabama congressional delegation. Andy Tai…

Arkansas Times: “Sixty-five years ago, nine teenagers braved Little Rock Central High School as its first African-American students. The historic desegregation of Central High will be commemorated with four days of events in Little Rock starting Thursday, Sept. 22. The National Park Service will present a number of events over the weekend under the theme “Silence is Not…

CNN: “The relocation of about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, initiated last week by Florida’s governor, has revived memories of strikingly similar tactics employed by southern segregationists 60 years ago. As news of the relocation spread, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library quickly drew historical parallels to the Reverse Freedom Rides during…

Off the Kuff: “A Texas law prohibiting large social media companies from banning users’ posts based on their political viewpoints will go into effect after a federal appeals court on Friday lifted a block placed on the statute. NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association sued Texas after the law, known as House Bill…

AL Political Reporter: “A video shared on social media appears to show a correctional officer at the Elmore County Correctional facility beating an incarcerated individual on the roof of a building at the facility. The video shows what appears to be a group of correctional staff outside a building at the Elmore County facility, with…

AlterNet: “Most polls have been showing Kemp with single-digit leads over Abrams. In early September, a Fox 5/InsiderAdvantage poll showed Abrams trailing Kemp by 8 percent. But a Quinnipiac poll released on September 14 showed Kemp leading Kemp by only 2 percent, which was a hopeful sign for Abrams’ campaign. According to Never Trump conservative and former Republican Tim…

AlterNet: “Former President Bill Clinton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that he believes that President Joe Biden and the Democrats can “absolutely” buck the historical trend of the opposition party making substantial congressional gains in the midterm elections. “We could hold both these houses. But we have to say the right things,” Clinton said…

North State Journal: “Oral arguments over the constitutionality of North Carolina’s photo voter identification law will be held next month, the state Supreme Court has decided in another ruling determined along partisan lines.  In a 4-3 decision, the justices who are registered as Democrats agreed with attorneys for minority voters who had asked the state’s…

NC Health News: “In the summer of 1982, Warren County became ground zero for the environmental justice movement. The community, at the time a relatively sparsely populated county on the Virginia border north of Raleigh, was rocked by six weeks of protests over PCB-laced oil being sprayed on rural county roads.  The incident that sparked…