NOTASULGA, Ala. - Notasulga residents will avoid a long drive for health care when a medical clinic run by Tallassee Community Hospital opens its doors Monday.

"It's very important to us because a lot of people are not able to get to Opelika or Tallassee," Notasulga Mayor Frank Tew said. "And we need it for this town to grow."

A clinic here closed in May and the town created a medical clinic board to reopen it.

Nancy McDonald, who served on the medical clinic board, said she feels that with the support of the Tallassee hospital, the clinic will grow rapidly into a self-supported.  Read more

RICHMOND, Va. -- If every American contributes $8, the U.S. National Slavery Museum could open exhibits as early as next year, Bill Cosby, a key contributor to the project, said Friday.

Cosby joined Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder in launching a new campaign to raise $100 million toward the Fredericksburg museum's $200 million cost by asking people to give up what Cosby termed "the price of two shots of Scotch."   Read more

The Reverend Milton Henry, a civil rights lawyer and black separatist who sought to create a provisional government of former slave states, including Mississippi, died September 9 of natural causes. He was 87.  Read more

Human slavery, America's original sin, developed into a moral crisis, culminating in a Civil War that cost 518,333 lives. That exceeds the deaths in every other U.S. war, from the Revolution through Iraq.  Read more

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Michael Apted's slave-trade drama "Amazing Grace" has lined up a U.S. distribution deal on the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, where it will make its world premiere in the closing-night slot.

Independent distributors Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions said they would release the film on February 23, the 200th anniversary of the British parliament's vote to abolish the slave trade.  Read more