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70 years after Brown v Board, Alabama town still grapples with divided schools
But across Alabama’s 18 Black Belt counties, all of the remaining segregation academies ProPublica identified — about a dozen — are still vastly white, even though the region’s population ...
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A Year After Historic Civil Rights Settlement, Alabama Slowly Bringing Sanitation Equity to Rural Black Communities
is all business when it comes to improving conditions in the Black Belt. She’ll rattle off all 57 items on her to-do list before she tells you she grew up in southeast Alabama, Covington County ...
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Alabama's Black Belt Selling $903.4 Million of Bonds for Supply of Natural Gas Over 30 Years
Alabama's Black Belt Energy plans to sell $903.4 million of gas project revenue bonds to prepurchase natural gas that will be delivered over a period of about 30 years. Black Belt will issue an as ...
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South Central Alabama Broadband Cooperative District receives $820k funding to improve broadband within the Black Belt
The South-Central Alabama Broadband Cooperative District (SCABCD) recently received funding of $820,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide technical assistance to ...
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Alabama slowly bringing sanitation equity to rural Black communities after settlement
Sherry Bradley, who runs the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Project, explains how a new septic system will work for a mobile home in Lowndes County. A year after the Alabama Department of ...