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Tornado recovery work begins in Alabama

CNN - Jan 24, 2012
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Five Jefferson County, Alabama, schools remained closed Tuesday, a day after a tornado tore through the area, killing two and destroying at least 211 homes. One of the schools, Center Point Elementary was 80 percent ...

Jobless Rates Decrease in 37 U.S. States, Led by Alabama

WRAL.com

San Francisco Chronicle - Jan 24, 2012
Alabama showed the biggest decrease in joblessness, with its rate falling to 8.1 percent last month from 8.7 percent in November, a report from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. Payrolls increased in 25 states, led by Texas.

Alabama A&,M 65, Alcorn St. 64

CBSSports.com - Jan 24, 2012
(AP) - Casey Cantey made both his free throws with 4 seconds left to give Alabama A&M a 65-64 win over Alcorn State on Monday night. The Bulldogs (4-12, 2-5 Southwestern Athletic Conference) led by 10, 63-53, with 6:27 remaining before turning it over ...

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Alabama books

The Wedding Gift

by: Marlen Suyapa Bodden
When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. It just so happens that Sarah is Allen’s daughter as well, the product of a long-term sexual relationship with his slave Emmeline. When Clarissa’s husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends Clarissa and Sarah back to the Allens, their return sets in motion a series of events that will destroy the once-powerful family. Told through the alternating view points of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius’s wife, The Wedding Gift shines a glaring light on the brutality of slavery in the antebellum South.
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The Heat

by: MacLaney Blue
Magnolia Sheldon is a headstrong Southern gal with a serious addiction to donuts. She owns and operates Lila's cafe in her small Alabama hometown.

Maggie has no idea how her life will change when she hires uber-sexy Max Walker as a part-time cook. Will she overcome her tortured past and find lasting happiness or will spying to uncover Max's secret ruin her chances? Most of all, when she and Max really get cooking, will she be able to handle the heat?

The Heat. You'll never look at baklava the same way again.
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

by: Danielle L. McGuire
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.

The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written.

In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama.
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