Wendell Hudson Takes Alabama Home

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By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Sometimes the best way to see the world change is to stand in one place and watch it happen.

Stand, for instance, outside the doors of Foster Auditorium on the campus of the University of Alabama some morning and you might see a man arriving for work. As a coach, he's likely lost in thoughts of unsolved scouting reports, but it wouldn't be a surprise to see him stop for a minute to shake a hand or return a wave. He is, after all, a bit of an institution in Tuscaloosa.

Then Wendell Hudson is through the door, heading to his office in the newly renovated home of Alabama women's basketball. And on Feb. 13, fans will file through those same doors and watch Hudson coach the Crimson Tide, a man of color baptizing a reborn relic of a monochrome world. CONTINUE....

Could Alabama Elect a Black Governor?

Rep. Artur Davis will run for governor in 2010. He’s leaving Alabama’s tortured racial history in the past. But will the state’s Republican voters be able to do the same?

By: Denise Stewart

Last Saturday in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham, a 41-year-old Congressman who went to Harvard and then graduated from Harvard Law School, announced that he was running for governor of Alabama in 2010.

There were red, white and blue signs with his name on them and a diverse crowd of about 500 cheered on the candidate. There was a little white girl, her face painted like an orange cat. There were black and white retirees in lawn chairs, sipping on soft drinks and bottled water. Then there were the business owners, lawyers and politicians—black, white and brown.

The candidate, Rep. Artur Davis, is black.

Could Alabama Elect a Black Governor?....