TheMontgomery-Tuskegee Times was an Americanweekly newspaper for the Black community, founded in 1979 and published inMontgomery, Alabama.[1][2] It ceased publication around 2001. It is also known as theMontgomery Tuskegee Times, and theMontgomery-Tuskegee Times: The Alternative.
Rev. Alvin "Al" Dixon (nicknamed "Ugly Al Dixon", "Soul Mouth of the South", and "Dizzy Dixon"), founded and edited theMontgomery-Tuskegee Times paper, he also worked as a minister anddisc jockey.[1][6][7] As a DJ, Dixon booked musical acts along theChitlin' Circuit.[6] In the 1970s, he wrote a column on soul music, and the importance of Black broadcasters.[8]
In 1974, Black Muslim revolutionaries took Dixon, and another WAPX employee hostage in Montgomery, after they had slashed one man and killed another. They broadcast calls for revolution. Dixon and the other worker escaped and the revolutionaries were captured.[9]
TheMontgomery-Tuskegee Times newspaper sponsored the annual Montgomery-Tuskegee Times Black History Awards starting in 1987.[10][11][12][13]
