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Fans of documentary film making will gather in the nation’s capital tonight for the start of the annual DC DOX Festival. One short feature is titled “Christmas Every Day.” It focuses on two pre-teen Alabama sisters, Peyton and Lila Wesson, who promote fashion and beauty products as online influencers. APR News Director Pat Duggins spoke with Sky Sitney, co-founder and organizer of DC DOX about the Alabama based film which will featured in Washington, D.C.

The leader of Legal Services Alabama (LSA) is advocating for constituent access to the legal system access across the Yellowhammer State on issues like fair housing, veterans’ benefits, domestic violence and medical debt.

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a woman whose whistleblower account of being assaulted in a stairwell at the spy agency's headquarters prompted a flood of colleagues to come forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct. The woman's attorney called the action a brazen retaliation. Her alleged attacker is a CIA staffer from Alabama.

If you are ever in Washington DC, go take a look at a pair of Althea Thomas’ shoes in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

An Alabama man will remain in jail until his trial after being charged with bringing 11 molotov cocktails and other weapons to the U.S. Capitol in…

A regional airport in Alabama’s capital will soon begin offering direct flights to the nation’s capital.The Montgomery Advertiser reports American…

A new civil rights march will be taking place at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham this weekend.Activists from across Alabama…