Heads and tales: Starting and stopping
By Wade Kwon
Outbreak of civil rest: Civil rights leader and Alabama native Fred Shuttlesworth is stepping down from the pulpit of the Cincinnati church he founded 40 years ago. The reverend worked in Birmingham in the 1960s to end segregation — and was nearly killed several times fighting for equal treatment. He turns 84 on Saturday. Meanwhile, 83-year-old Jim Clark, the Dallas County sheriff at the heart of 1965’s “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, says he’d attack the civil rights marchers again today. Ah, some things never change.
• Civil rights leader: age, retirement won’t stop fight for justice [Associated Press]
You’ve bulldozed the rest, now try the west: Bessemer is spending $13.5 million to land a $60 milllion mall. That thing better have a Hot Topic.
• Bessemer to back shopping center [Birmingham News]
Lord, I’m coming home to you: Among this year’s newest members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Skynyrd! You can thank/rue the band for the inescapable state anthem, “Sweet Home Alabama,” whether it’s in fast-food chicken commercials or in heated debates of Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. Neil Young. Meanwhile, Sheryl Crow has rescheduled her Huntsville date for June 25, following breast cancer surgery in March. And the latest adds to City Stages? Yellowcard and John Hiatt.
• Black Sabbath, Blondie Enter Rock Hall [Associated Press]
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