Al.com vs. SBPDL
Alabama It was only a matter of time. We’re really getting under their skin. Note: SBPDL and OD are going to shine a spotlight as […]
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50 Years Forward: Losing The MotoGP
Alabama OD’s probe into racial favoritism and public funding of sporting events in Birmingham, Alabama continues to turn up some interesting results with the assistance […]
Obama’s Sons Beat Elderly White Man In Jacksonville
Florida The temperature is warming up … the “youths” of America, the Trayvons, are crawling the streets again in Florida:
50 Years Forward: Behind The Purple Drapes, Race and Sports In The Tragic City
Alabama In recent weeks, OD has been taking a closer look at Birmingham, Alabama, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the events that were […]
Birmingham vs. Boise
Alabama This comparison of crime in Birmingham (AL) versus Boise (ID) and similar sized cities originated in a discussion in the comment section at al.com: […]
50 Years Forward: Selma Ranked Worst City For Business in Alabama
Alabama Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, Selma and Birmingham have been ranked among the worst cities for business in Alabama: “With every best […]
50 Years Forward: DBE Contractor Linked To Sign That Killed Luke Bresette
Alabama A few days ago, SBPDL.com speculated that Luke Bresette – the 10-year-old White boy from Kansas who died when a flight display sign collapsed […]
50 Years Forward: In Birmingham, 5 Years for Homicide
Alabama In light of the 50 Years Forward commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, OD and SBPDL are putting Birmingham, Alabama – where scenes […]
Montgomery’s White Resistance To Integration
Alabama This excerpt on the demise of segregation in Montgomery is from J. Mills Thornton III’s Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil […]
Alabama Moves To Restore (Limited) Segregation
Alabama As someone who grew up in this area, I can say that the Alabama Accountability Act will have a far greater impact on the lives […]
Black Alabama Lawmaker’s Email: ‘Slave-Holding, Murdering, Adulterous, Baby-Raping, Snaggle-Toothed Kin Folk’
Alabama A White conservative from Jefferson County sends out a polite mass email asking Alabama state lawmakers to oppose gun control … a black state […]
Vulcan Bike Week
Alabama In the previous article, we saw that the Birmingham City Council voted not to sign a contract with the promoters of the Honda Indy Grand Prix […]
50 Years Forward: Birmingham City Council Rejects Funding Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama
Alabama Paul Kersey of SBPDL.com recently published his latest book on Amazon, The Tragic City: Birmingham, 1963-2013, which tells the true story of how the City […]
Historic Selma Struggles With Blight
Alabama When I last visited Selma in 2011, I was struck by the obvious decline of the city: the blighted homes, the abandoned shopping centers, […]
Congress Finally Reacts To Violence In Birmingham
Alabama Birmingham’s DWL community held a Memorial March last night in honor of the tragic and “senseless” shooting of Jarmaine Walton in Railroad Park: “BIRMINGHAM, […]
Trends With Benefits
Alabama NPR investigates Greensboro in Hale County (AL) where 1 in 4 working age adults are receiving a $1,000 disability check a month: “In rural […]
Negroes In Negroland (1868)
North Carolina Here’s the link to Hinton Rowan Helper’s less famous book, Negroes in Negroland (1868), which he wrote in the midst of Reconstruction in North Carolina. […]
Black Teens Murder Baby In Stroller In Brunswick, Georgia
Georgia H/T CofCC Even for the Black Undertow, this is a new low: “West earlier told reporters that the incident occurred at 9 a.m. Thursday […]
Montgomery Set To Surpass Murderham In Violent Crime
Alabama The City of Montgomery is on track to set a new record in 2013. For the first time in over a century, perhaps ever, […]
Montgomery Prays To Change (Black) Culture
Alabama “Now it is not an accident that one of the great marches of American history should terminate in Montgomery, Alabama. (Yes, sir) Just ten […]
Job Growth In Alabama Metros
Alabama David Sher, who runs The Comeback Town, has been making the argument for city-county consolidation in the Birmingham metro area on the basis that […]
Birmingham and Secession
Alabama Paul Kersey writes: “Black people will always follow white people wherever they may go, because the conditions found in a white community are preferable […]
Yes To Independence 7.0
Maryland H/T SNN A Marylander explains why he supports Southern independence: Note: The desire for Southern independence is really no more complicated than the chronic […]
Montgomery’s Crime Problem
Alabama Montgomery has a growing violent crime problem: “Due to the efforts of his church, shootings in the neighborhood have stopped, Nettles said, but violent […]
Louis Farrakhan To Visit Tuskegee
Alabama I learned this afternoon that Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam will be coming to Tuskegee for a three day visit next week. […]
Seceding From The Black Mecca
Georgia WND has published two stories in recent days on the fear that Atlanta in 2013 could be evolving into the “Detroit of the South”: “The […]
The Cahawba Solution
Alabama Cahawba, the first permanent state capital of Alabama, is a ghost town located about 12 miles southwest of Selma in Dallas County (AL). The […]
Joe Biden Visits Selma’s Magic Bridge
Alabama The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma has made the news again: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service […]
Yes To Independence 6.0
South Carolina H/T SNN Good points. Why should Southern children be serving as cannon fodder in America’s endless imperial wars in Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, […]
The Tragic City: Crime In Jefferson County (AL)
Alabama David Sher of The Comeback Town has written a response to John Bennett’s article on post-1963 Birmingham which recently appeared in The American Thinker: “I can […]
Yes To Dixie 3.0
Virginia and North Carolina At some point, I would like to do one of these videos for Alabama: Note: See the previous videos from South […]
Robert Lewis Dabney on Northern Conservatism
Dixie H/T Michael Hill Faith and Heritage has a great post on Dabney’s take on Northern conservatism as it confronted the women’s suffrage movement in […]