Katy Sullivan Hopes Making History on Broadway Heralds a Revolution

A young girl recently stopped the actor and Paralympian Katy Sullivan after a performance of Cost of Living on Broadway, in which Sullivan plays a quadriplegic woman named Ani negotiating her new life after an accident and a complicated relationship with ex-husband Eddie (David Zayas). “She asked to take my picture and said, ‘I want to thank you. I’ve never seen someone like me on stage. I love acting,’” recalled Sullivan, talking to The Daily Beast in a recent Zoom call. “And I said to her, ‘Don’t give up, don’t…

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Five pregnant women imprisoned in Etowah County, Alabama released to “protect” their fetuses

Five pregnant and postpartum women held on drug charges in an Alabama prison have been released after lawyers argued the terms of their bail were “unconstitutional.” One of the women, 23-year-old Ashley Banks, was arrested two days after finding out she was pregnant in May this year and charged with marijuana possession. She said she confessed to smoking cannabis two days ago and was charged with “exposing a child to chemical danger”. AL.com. Under Alabama law, this meant that she was held in the Etowah County Jail on a $10,000…

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Alabama executioners summon Alan Miller’s lethal injection after trouble getting into his veins

When the Supreme Court gave way to Alan Miller’s lethal injection Thursday night, the triple killer spent several hours believing he was close to death. But when the moment came, prison officials had trouble getting into his veins, and as midnight approached, a decision was suddenly made to call off the execution. Miller, 57, was sentenced to death for the murder of three men in a workplace shooting in 1999. The choice to stop proceedings and return Miller to his cell came around 11:30 p.m. just hours after judges decided…

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Is Rashad Jamal University’s secret sect of cosmic intelligence behind the killing of more than one person in Alabama?

Police now say the Alabama couple accused of killing student Adam Simgee on the highway may be followers of a conspiracy theory sect led by a suspected pedophile. Jasmine Haider and her partner, Crystal Pinkins, were arrested August 14 after Haider allegedly shot Simji after he and his girlfriend lured him to a woodland where they were living off the grid with Penkins’ 5-year-old son. Simjee and his girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, were on a trip to enjoy some nature when Hider allegedly informed them under the guise that she needed…

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Parents, NAACP Fume after another racist video Roils Northridge High School in Tuscaloosa

An anti-women and anti-black video by an Alabama high school student sparked the local chapter of the NAACP to demand a long-awaited “zero tolerance” approach to racism. A video of a student at Northridge High School in Tuscaloosa giving a hateful speech circulated last week, just one year after the school made headlines for another video that made derogatory racist remarks. In the video, a White female student talking directly to the camera. “Your sister has a class with me, where I have sex with her and get on her…

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‘Serial Butt-Grabber’ who attacked a girl during a ‘social experiment’ is wanted for two murders

A Michigan teen who was attacked by a stranger allegedly conducting a social experiment gave a description of cops that led to his arrest – and impending charges of two murders accused of the same week in two different states. Aurora Dall, 18, was out running near her home in Gaastra at about 6 a.m. on August 1. She said she panicked hearing footsteps approaching from behind her, and when she turned to look, she saw a man running toward her screaming who was conducting a social experiment. He was…

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It’s Way Too Hard to Put Up a Monument to Lynching Victims

Just off a street corner in Mobile, Alabama, a historic marker spells out the grisly details of Richard Robertson’s 1909 lynching. The real story told between its embossed metallic lines is about a community’s death grip on mythology and why these memorials are needed. For nearly a year, the Mobile County Community Remembrance Project (MCCRP) has fought to control the Robertson plaque’s location. Paid for by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)—a Montgomery-based non-profit providing legal defense for wrongful prosecution and bringing awareness to historic race-based injustices—the $3,000 marker was the…

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Angry sumo coach Osunarashi Kintaro protested after Egyptian wrestler calls for a backflip at the DQ World Games

On a hot Saturday night in Birmingham, a 23-year-old Egyptian sumo wrestler forced his opponent out of a circuit. After winning the gold-medal match, he shouted triumphantly and made a back-jump, to the delight of the crowd – and to the dismay of the match officials, who were quick to disqualify him for his unsportsmanlike behavior. The call, which took place over the weekend at Botwell Hall in Alabama, angered wrestler Abd al-Rahman al-Safi, who refused to step out of the ring. But no one was more angry than his…

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Katie Brett defeats Moe Brooks in the Alabama Senate Republican run-off

After a fierce campaign that saw him transform from Donald Trump’s ally to Donald Trump’s tormentor, Rep. Moe Brooks (R-Alabama) ended up failing to win the title he really wanted: US Senator from Alabama. On Tuesday night, Brooks was handily defeated in the Republican primary by Katie Boyd Brett, a top aide to former Senator Richard Shelby, whose retirement unlocked that seat. Brooks, a congressman from the MAGA wing best known outside of Alabama for his inflammatory rhetoric at the infamous Ellipse rally in Washington on Jan. 6, entered the…

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