RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept. 19 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Civil Rights Trail trip is historical and personal for VCU students The summer journey from the Department of Political Science is experiential learning and, for senior Alexandra Hardesty and others, a reinforcement of passion. * By Joan Tupponce Walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Alexandra Hardesty thought about civil rights leader John Lewis, who tried with hundreds   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: * * * DNC Launches New Distributed Organizing Campaign To Boost GOTV Efforts Ahead of the Mobile, AL, Mayoral Runoff Elections  * Ahead of the Mobile, Alabama, mayoral runoff election, the DNC announced a new organizing initiative to supercharge GOTV efforts and carry Alabama Democrat and state Rep. Barbara Drummond across the finish line to victory. Republicans' deeply unpopular, extreme agenda is l  more

MOBILE, Alabama, Sept. 19 -- The University of South Alabama issued the following news release: * * * USA Professor Receives $155,000 Grant for Artificial Intelligence Research Dr. Jesse Ables, an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama's School of Computing, has been awarded a $155,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to show exactly how and why artificial intelligence determines its decisions. His funded project combines two critical areas of cybersecurity and arti  more