Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 07/10/2026Alabama HBCU could feel impact from $549 million Missouri lawsuit mrf.lu/2fbj3 011
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 07/10/2026The lawsuit stems from allegations that Black land-grant universities like Alabama A&M have been historically underfunded with long-term consequences for the institutions and their students. 142
Reposted by MickiPLineCognitive Cunt @meelajay.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026USING YOUR LIBRARY CARD IS REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS ... PASS IT ON 🗣 September is national library card sign up month! Don't let the month go by without getting yours! 27653
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It sounds broke…to me. Smh.static.klipy.comEeeyuk EeeeyuckAlt: A Black lady disgusted with Bama’s brokeness saying Eeeeeyuck! 000
Reposted by MickiPLineHello, it is me, Kira. :) @kirabira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read. 839951246
Reposted by MickiPLineHannah Denham @hdenham.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Our map of data centers in Alabama: open, under construction and proposed. Let us know if we missed one, and we'll add to the map www.datawrapper.de/_/nEvkf/datawrapper.deAlabama's data centers | Created with DatawrapperMore than a dozen data centers are currently operating, under construction or proposed across the state. Here's what we know about these developments. 133
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 17/08/2026Alabama HBCU bringing back football after decade-plus absence mrf.lu/2RLhV 001
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 17/08/2026Stillman, a Historically Black College in Tuscaloosa, shut down football — along with its entire athletics program other than basketball — at the end of the 2015 season. However, that will soon change. 112
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 29/07/2026Birmingham to create downtown park, day space for homeless: ‘Meet people where they are’ mrf.lu/2cKPp 014
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 29/07/2026The park is designed to connect individuals with housing, healthcare, treatment and critical services. Officials said Birmingham Oasis will provide a safe place for people to spend the day when overnight shelters are normally closed. More 👇 196
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 20/07/2026A national Republican organizing group is putting more resources behind an effort to flip the congressional seat held by Alabama Democrat Rep. Shomari Figures. 144
Reposted by MickiPLineZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells! In celebration, try this mixer activity to help students uncover Wells’ radical legacy and resistance, then and now: Explore “The Heroes We Need Today: Teaching About the Radical Ida B. Wells”: 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...zinnedproject.orgThe Heroes We Need Today: Teaching About the Radical Ida B. WellsThis mixer activity helps students uncover the radical legacy of Ida B. Wells and the significance of her resistance, then and now. 111855
Reposted by MickiPLineElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been abandoned by the Democratic Party to fight an existential crisis on their own. They say they’ve been let down by nearly all corners of the party.” Essential read:politico.comSouthern Black leaders warn their power is on the line — and Democrats are looking elsewhereBlack lawmakers and activists in the Deep South say they are fighting an existential crisis on their own in the wake of a major Supreme Court ruling. 301160495
Reposted by MickiPLineThe Athletic @theathletic.com · 09/07/2026Atlanta has embraced Angel Reese as both an All-Star and a cultural figure. For the Dream, one trade became an inflection point for a franchise, a community and the future of women's basketball in the city: nyti.ms/3TpjQZO 110115
Reposted by MickiPLineBob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The ONE thing that the PodSave guys and the Bro'cialist set managed to agree on after a decade post-2016 is they hate "HR Ladies" who remind them of their moms more than fascism, and they don't want to get off that horse yet. 18720
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Four million Americans will turn 18 this year. Why aren’t we registering them to vote? | Laura W Brill 000
Reposted by MickiPLineZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2026#tdih 1964 in Tuscaloosa, AL 500+ Black marchers were violently attacked by KKK & police during protests to end segregation on “Bloody Tuesday.” Marchers took refuge in 1st African Baptist Church as police smashed windows w/ fire hoses & filled church w/ tear gas. No one was ever held accountable.zinnedproject.orgJune 9, 1964: Bloody TuesdayFollowing months of protests to end segregation, Black residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama were brutally attacked by police and the Klan inside the First African Baptist Church. 02923
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Have they fixed the wastewater problem here? That would be actually helpful to the people there. 000
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 02/06/2026www.chronicle.com/article/vyin...chronicle.comVying for the U. of Florida Presidency, Stuart Bell Compares Colleges’ Diversity Efforts to ‘Segregation’Conservatives have waged a campaign against Bell for his aggressive initiatives at the University of Alabama to attract Black students. 000
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Beautiful! Let’s go Anissa from Black Lightning!! The only reason that I started watching Rivals. 000
Reposted by MickiPLineThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Angry at those who keep pretending it’s all just about “economic anxiety” and “polarization.” Angry at the fact that we are constantly asked to come up with exculpatory tales, to please not call those pursuing a political project of re-segregation racists - so mean! - or segregationists. 18813
Reposted by MickiPLineThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Angry about a mainstream discourse that has somehow declared it uncouth, or not “sophisticated” enough, or too “divisive” to acknowledge that racism, patriarchal domination, and Christian supremacism are the animating forces in today’s Republican Party. 15912
Reposted by MickiPLineSnow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This is why Democrats have to start fighting on the same battlefield as the fascist tech billionaires. Bot nets, troll farms astroturf groups, dark money SuperPACs, demoralizing and shaming messaging targeted at MAGA voters, social media algorithm manipulation on a massive scale. 31615
Reposted by MickiPLineHannah Denham @hdenham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026BREAKING: Birmingham residents sue the city, data center company Nebius Inc., among others to stop the construction of a multibillion-dollar AI factory www.al.com/business/202...al.comHomeowners sue Birmingham, Nebius to block data center slated for Oxmoor ValleyNebius has said it plans to start construction on the site in the coming months. These two residents hope to stop it. 0169
Reposted by MickiPLineRuth Serven Smith @ruthservensmith.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Birmingham is one of several Alabama school districts national researchers say are "on the rise" after improvements in math, reading in recent years. Glad to contribute to this piece with @APNews colleagues -- www.al.com/educationlab...al.comAlabama school districts stand out among US for these education gainsResearchers say the science of reading works. 038
Reposted by MickiPLineMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026looking to speak to a freelance/independent journalist in the montgomery, alabama area about a potential assignment. message marisakabas.04 on signal! 5180107
Reposted by MickiPLineDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/05/2026BREAKING: The Alabama House voted 75-29 to pass legislation that could change the state’s congressional map during ongoing primaries — a last-minute attempt to diminish Black voting power before the midterms in light of SCOTUS’ ruling last week. The measure now heads to the state senate for a vote.democracydocket.comAlabama House approves last-minute congressional gerrymander, despite votes already cast“It’s a tragic step backwards for Black Alabama voters." 58458267
Reposted by MickiPLineEvan Deaubool 👻 @evan.codes · 01/05/2026The South proving at lightning speed why the Voting Rights Act was still necessary. 2310126
Reposted by MickiPLineButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026There is way more motivation for them to constantly scan for evidence black people are overreacting than motivation to be aggressive about racism and other types of oppression. Thats the only reason this "anti-woke" thing got legs in the first place. 064
Reposted by MickiPLineVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Supreme Court rules Black voters had no rights which the white man was bound to respect 7661250
Reposted by MickiPLineIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating. 163648962
Reposted by MickiPLineMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage. 11257106
Reposted by MickiPLineMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Maybe the presidents and chancellors of our world class research universities, in the face of this nuclear-level existential threat, should have engaged in even a minimal level of loud public collective action to oppose this nuclear-level existential threat? bsky.app/profile/mcop... 416346
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Sydney Park is so good as young Amanda. She has Sonja Sohn’s speech patterns and mannerisms down to a T. #WillTrent 000
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 27/04/2026www.al.com/news/2026/04...al.comFormer Tuscaloosa abortion clinic expands to address Alabama’s maternal health crisisAlabama has one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country, according to a 2025 March of Dimes report. 002
Reposted by MickiPLineMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for AI Policing In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras. capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-...capitalbnews.orgAtlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for AI PolicingIn America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras. 01811
Reposted by MickiPLineNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/04/2026the only way forward is forward. 1404
Reposted by MickiPLineNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I think it's important to be clear about this because nostalgia for FDR or LBJ—that's not going to help us move forward to a better place. they're policies were less progressive and less antiracist than current D bog standard, and certainly much less progressive and antiracist than we need 3467
Reposted by MickiPLineNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/04/2026the claim that Ds abandoned the working class erases the bipartisan history of white supremacy, and ends up being a claim that Ds abandoned white people. (which isn't true either.) 1487
Reposted by MickiPLineGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/04/2026Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all. Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy. This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech. 693012820
MickiPLine @mopre23.bsky.social · 18/04/2026In Rural Mississippi, a Black Town Bets on New Homes to Build Wealth capitalbnews.org/jonestown-mi...capitalbnews.orgIn Rural Mississippi, a Black Town Bets on New Homes to Build WealthIn Jonestown, an all-Black town, elders are helping to build housing and youth activities, but want more community support. 021
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 17/04/2026🔗: www.al.com/news/birmingham/2026/04/… HGTV star Carmeon Hamilton, will bring her design and improvement skills to Birmingham Saturday. 011
Reposted by MickiPLineandré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Not to get on my soapbox, but... ...honestly, if the new tech bubble has shown us anything, people who are already wealthy don't want us to think for ourselves. They want us to dream of their future, not ours. But we should do it anyway. 🧼 📦 2287
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 11/04/2026🔗: www.al.com/news/2026/04/automatic-r… Draft registration will be automatic; voter registration, not so much. 044
Reposted by MickiPLineDr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 10/04/2026“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” Coretta Scott King 0439
Reposted by MickiPLineAL.com @al.com · 09/04/2026Alabama teachers will get a small pay raise, a boost that comes after many went a year without an increase. Read more: www.al.com/educationlab/2026/04/ala… 031