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...hearing room was a reminder of Holder's uncommon roots: there was his wife Sharon Malone, a prominent obstetrician whose late sister Vivian Malone Jones faced down George Wallace to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963; his brother Billy, who became a New York Port Authority cop; his three young children, who may never know the indignity of racial profiling; and his mother Miriam, 85, who brought up two sons to revere the law. "We taught them to help where you can and right the wrongs that you see," she says. As in the old days, that...
...trees broke and power lines went down, state officials started to scramble. By Wednesday morning, President Obama had been notified about Kentucky's state of emergency. On Sunday afternoon, Schuster, still without power, was surprised to see that work crews - some apparently dispatched from Alabama - were erecting new utility poles next to the fallen poles that had not yet been cleared away. Neighbors told her that the utility crews reported seeing the same sight on every block - decimated power and communication lines that had to be entirely rebuilt. (Residents in rural Kentucky regions were informed Sunday that...
...Hired at the Alabama Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1979 and worked as an overnight supervisor (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.) for nearly two decades...
...Obama while he was a senator and campaigned on his behalf. Obama and the future First Lady talked about Ledbetter regularly on the stump and the Alabama native rode with Obama as he took a celebratory train trip to Washington, D.C. before the inauguration. Ledbetter attended the inauguration and danced with the President at a ball afterwards...
...This brave woman needs to be commended." - Rep. Artur Davis, Congressman from Alabama, Birmingham News, June...