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Welcome to the best opinion pieces of the week from News From The States. Our commentary includes our own journalists from across our extensive network as well as outside voices to bring a wide range of perspectives and ideas. In addition to the sampling below, you can look through all our commentary here.

 

 TOP COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK 

Alabama Reflector: Covering the pain and promise of our home

Brian Lyman | Alabama Reflector

 
The fountain in Court Square in Montgomery, Alabama as seen on Jan. 24, 2023. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)

The fountain in Court Square in Montgomery, Alabama as seen on Jan. 24, 2023.
(Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)

The pain and promise of Alabama collide on Dexter Avenue, the heart of Montgomery.

“How long will justice be crucified, and truth bear it?” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a man who knew Dexter Avenue, said that day. “I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because ‘truth crushed to earth will rise again.’”

In Alabama, America confronts itself. The state’s past is choked with elites who brutally and unapologetically used the public trust to serve themselves and keep their neighbors in line. They viewed the common good with suspicion, and those advocating it as traitors.

Many more Alabamians rejected these terms. Braving the wrath of former slaveholders, newly-emancipated communities built a public school system after the Civil War. A multiracial coalition rose in 1892 in a doomed but valiant effort to restore republican government to Alabama. King; Parks, E.D. Nixon, Amelia Boynton, John Lewis and thousands of other courageous souls resisted the darkness of Jim Crow, preserving a flame that they would build into a sunrise.

 

Iowa GOP lawmakers adopt new power-tripping mantra: ‘Because we won.’

Kathie Obradovich | Iowa Capital Dispatch

 

To be a Black man in America

Learotha Williams | Tennessee Lookout

 

I came to provide care for complicated pregnancies; I’m leaving because of Idaho’s abortion bans

Kylie Cooper | Idaho Capital Sun

 

As Kansas politicians pander to plutocrats, bills unraveling our shared freedoms can’t be dismissed

Clay Wirestone | Kansas Reflector

 

Wisconsin at the tipping point between ‘normal’ and ‘crazy’

Ruth Conniff | Wisconsin Examiner

 

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