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Judy Taylor (pictured) and Sharon Nelson led about 100 Tuscaloosa residents in a candlelight vigil for migrant children Friday evening.

Tuscaloosa residents hold vigil for detained immigrants

Rebecca Griesbach, News Editor • July 14, 2019

Sharon Nelson had never marched for a cause, had never held a picket sign and had certainly never organized a 100-person protest a day in her life.  Until last Friday, when she and other Tuscaloosa...

Don’t underestimate the power of students

Madelyn Schorr • November 18, 2015

Today students are typecast as self-absorbed, apathetic and out of touch with problems plaguing society. Pundits and parents say we spend too much time on Snapchat and Twitter and not enough time studying...

Students protest for diversity on campus at Rose Administration

Students protest for diversity on campus at Rose Administration

Alyx Chandler • November 13, 2015

Mizzou isn't the only university concerned with lack of diversity this week.At 8 a.m., an interchanging group of 20 to 40 students dressed in all black stood outside the doors of Rose Administration,...

A note to white progressives

Kyle Campbell • September 9, 2015

In the wake of the Ferguson riots in the Spring of 2014, over a hundred UA students associated with the Black Lives Matter movement orchestrated a “die-in” in the Ferguson Center, during which they...

Student protests protect speech

Matthew Bailey • February 22, 2015

Student protests of individuals chosen to speak at their schools, especially commencement speakers, have increased over the past few years. Many have considered these protests to be an attack on the free...

More than 300 protest for Brown

More than 300 protest for Brown

Katie Shepherd and Collin Burwinkel • December 3, 2014

More than 300 students participated in a silent, peaceful protest for Michael Brown in the University of Alabama Ferguson Center on Wednesday. The protesters met at 11:30 a.m. on the first floor of the...

Group marches for immigrant rights on campus

Group marches for immigrant rights on campus

Rich Robinson • August 22, 2012

A group of undocumented immigrants, students, immigration reform supporters and clergy marched down University Boulevard on Monday. The crowd was part of the “Undocubus Riding for Dignity,” a bus tour...

Protesters call out state GOP

Protesters call out state GOP

Briana Harris • March 28, 2012

While walking through the Crimson Promenade yesterday between noon and 2 p.m., students and faculty may have noticed members of the UA College Democrats holding signs and chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, SB5...

Websites go dark to protest proposed laws

Websites go dark to protest proposed laws

Ashanka Kumari • January 19, 2012

As a form of protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act in the U.S. Senate, Wikipedia, along with other websites, including Google, Reddit and...

Students, faculty protest social inequality

Sydney Newman • October 20, 2011

A group of students and faculty assembled outside Foster Auditorium to hold a peaceful protest march from the Malone-Hood Plaza to the Ferguson Center Plaza on Wednesday. The protesters represented numerous...