No Black Alabamian has ever served in the U.S. Senate. And only four Black lawmakers have been elected to represent the state ...

In 1963, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues at the Southern ...

On a sidewalk near the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met Jaqueline Smith, a long-term resident of the motel until she was forcibly evicted in 1988. For 36 years, ...

If you’re planning a trip to Alabama, make sure to include some of the state’s must-see historic landmarks in your itinerary.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state autopsy has ruled that a Black ... AL.com. Despite the state’s official findings, the case has sparked intense suspicion and outcry in a community with a long ...

Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum ... charged the Montgomery police with heavy-handed tactics in breaking up a demonstration by Black students.

The symbolism of taking a bus full of Black and white Transylvanians down to Montgomery, Alabama this spring does not escape ...

Mark your travel calendars. Our editors have scoured the South for what’s new, notable, and next in 2025. Here are the 25 ...

Discover facts about the first official MLK March in 1987 including 2 famous attendees, plus why San Antonio hosts what's ...

A man accused of long hiding a stolen pair of sequined ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz” plans to plead ...

In April 2023, she became the first Black woman in U.S. history to have an Army fort named ... at the Tuskegee VA Medical Center in Alabama, Anna Tarryk worked for the VA’s Insurance Division ...