The Republican-controlled Alabama state Legislature has caused a furor after refusing to create a new congressional map to include a second majority-Black district. The decision Friday defies a recent ...

A timeline of Willie Mays’ career: 1931 (May 6) — Born in Westfield, Alabama. 1948 — Joins Birmingham Black Barons of Negro leagues. 1950 — Signs with New York Giants for $4,000.

Mays was a native of Westfield, Alabama, near where Rickwood Field is located in Birmingham. He also began his professional career playing in the Negro Leagues in 1948 for the Birmingham Black ...

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Vern was born in Westfield, Alabama on December 6, 1941, to the late Jesse “Sharp” Rollins and Lola Mae McMeans Cooper. Living in the South, she enjoyed the innocence of childhood before ...

AP Photo/Alanis Thames Other tributes to Mays, born in Westfield, Alabama, near Birmingham, poured in all over the country Wednesday, including from President Joe Biden. "Like so many others in my ...

A timeline of Willie Mays’ career: 1931 (May 6) — Born in Westfield, Alabama. 1948 — Joins Birmingham Black Barons of Negro leagues. 1950 — Signs with New York Giants for $4,000.

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