VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

A new phase of the historic union vote by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama begins today. Things are not over,” says Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings. “We Many of the tactics Amazon used are legal under current labor law. It’s a learning moment.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Mr. Hinton spent almost 30 years on death row in Alabama. He is committed to changing the narrative on race in this country to help us truly understand who we are.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

Another key difference between the successful drive in Staten Island and the thus far unsuccessful union drive in Bessemer, Alabama: ALU was independent, and the Bessemer organizing efforts were done in coordination with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an 85-year-old labor union that already represents thousands of workers.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

The National Labor Relations Board ultimately ruled that Musk’s comments should be considered union-busting and broke the law. The labor rights movement took an especially public hit earlier this month when a push to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama overwhelmingly failed.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the height of Amazon’s labor battle in Bessemer, Alabama, there was no way to distinguish between workers who actually represented Amazon, and those who were posting satirically. Twitter hadn’t anticipated the authenticity of rank-and-file workers would ever be up for scrutiny. In April, I wrote about the case of Amazon’s Twitter army.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2021

For the last seven weeks, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama , have been voting by mail on whether to unionize. The vote is taking place at an Amazon warehouse called BHM1 in Bessemer, Alabama, outside Birmingham. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Here is what’s happened so far and what might happen next.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Serial Productions settled a lawsuit in May this year over the alleged use of the deceased subject’s name for commercial purposes, violating the Alabama Right of Publicity law. Participant Media acquired the show’s feature rights and is currently developing it to become a full-length film.).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

The controversial App Store Accountability Act , which will now head to the desk of Utah Governor Spencer Cox, has pitted app store giants Google and Apple against social media companies like Meta and is part of a wave of similar proposals that have been introduced in a number of states, including Texas and Alabama.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Micromobbin’ For some bizarre reason, it’s illegal to for people use privately owned e-scooters on public roads in England. If legalized, private scooters will have to meet similar safety specifications as those in the public trials, namely max speeds of 15.5 miles per hour and automatic lights. Autonomous vehicles.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For example, a 2011 Alabama law called HB-56 directed local police officers to investigate the immigration status of drivers stopped for speeding. That law and its resulting effects prompted some Alabama-based immigrant workers to leave the state following workplace raids. billion to $10.8 without legal documentation.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

The company went public in 2015, and as online commerce has exploded during the pandemic, it’s been on a tear ever since — it just posted $988 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, a 110 percent increase from last year. And we went public around 2015 on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

As Leah Nylen noted in that report: “Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company.”. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up : YouTube is finally letting creators know exactly how they’re making money on the platform. Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

Shes also a 2020 MacArthur Fellow for environmental health advocacy and, in 2011, worked with the United Nations special rapporteur to expose environmental injustices in Lowndes County, Alabama, where she grew up, and across the southern U.S. I think about Alabama. Last week, U.S. Appalachia. I think about Appalachia.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company. Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. Stylistically, they’re laws. 250 units of housing.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

For now, Priesters will have to stick to its famous pecans in Fort Payne, Alabama. Priesters Pecans, an Alabama staple, is one of more than half a dozen sites across the state slated to receive millions of dollars in federal funding to expand access to chargers for electric vehicles. But maybe not for long. But in a Feb.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

22 percent of the American public interacts with Twitter. You’ll carve away Section 230, the law that says platforms aren’t liable for what users publish, you’ll do algorithmic transparency, you’ll make them audit every content moderation decision they make. And there’s still hookworm epidemics in Alabama and Texas and other places.

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