This is an opinion column. It doesn’t work if this doesn’t work. A vibrant, economically thriving civil rights district in ...

Related stories Related sites The civil rights struggle in modern times. 1954 -- U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown ...

This is an opinion column. Get my weekly newsletter, The Barbershop. Sign up here for free! Something is stirring, finally. Something is stirring the somnolence of Birmingham’s Civil Rights District.

"Second volume of oral histories produced by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Oral History Project (BCRI OHP)"--Pref.

This Saturday, October 18, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) will host Bound Together: Day of Community—a public gathering honoring the lives ...

Introduction -- Timeline -- Too great a burden to bear -- Highway in and halfway out -- The strong one -- The bomb heard 'round the world -- Life is but a vapor -- Four little coffins -- The aftermath ...

This is an opinion column. Historic 16th Street Baptist Church did not wait. It never did. Not in its infancy — founded 152 years ago in the belly of segregation. It didn’t wait to become the ...

Bishop Calvin Woods Sr., distinguished Birmingham civil rights leader and longtime pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Norwood, died Saturday. He was 91. Woods was one of the city’s leading voices for ...

With all the natural components needed to make steel—iron ore, coal, and limestone—Birmingham experienced meteoric growth during the Industrial Age, earning it the name the Magic City. While steel ...