Alabama civil rights

The Alabama Mural Trail is growing and now has a free digital passport to offer travelers along with the opportunity to win prizes.

Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four girls. Lisa McNair, the sister of one of the victims, said that as the anniversary is remembered, she hoped people will think about what they can do to combat hate. McNair is worried about a current political climate where she said where politicians seem to purposely stoke division. As an adult, McNair met and forged an unlikely friendship with one of the suspect's daughters.

An Alabama pastor and voting rights activist pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion, mail fraud, and drug conspiracy charges. Kenneth Glasgow is the half-brother of civil rights activist and media personality Al Sharpton. Glasgow entered the plea in Montgomery federal court.

The Alabama Public Radio news team was recently invited to take part in a public discussion on slavery in the state. I was joined on stage by William Green. He’s a member of the Clotilda Descendants Association.

An Alabama black church, associated with the state’s fight for civil rights, is part of a group of houses of worship to receive federal grant money for preservation

Civil rights activist who took part in the 1963 protest, that became known as the “children’s march,” has died. As a young Black woman, Mamie King-Chalmers appeared in an iconic photograph about that civil rights demonstration in Alabama in 1963.

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides in Alabama.More than 400 civil rights activists boarded buses, trains, and planes to oppose…

A local civil rights leader is being celebrated in Selma today. Caravans are driving throughout the neighborhoods where pastor and educator Dr. F.D. Reese…

“At that time, we’d been singing songs, we shall overcome, and before I’d be a slave…be dead and buried in my grave,” says Bennie Lee Tucker. He’s seventy…

The Selma City Council is declaring March 15th to be "F.D. Reese Day" in the community. Frederick Douglas Reese was 88 when he died in 2018. He had been…