In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

In Birmingham, Dr. Shabazz also visited 16th Street Baptist Church, another Consortium site, where a Klan bombing killed four ...

An Alabama State House committee on Wednesday approved a that would make Juneteenth a state holiday. The House State ...

Military bases should not be named "for traitors to our country but instead honor American heroes like Novosel," she wrote ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...

Alabama served as the first capital of the Confederacy during the initial few months of the US Civil War. After the war, Alabama was among the first of the former Confederate states to enact “Black ...

Exploring Civil War Furnace that was used to supply Selma with the iron needed for cannon balls, guns and cannons. Tannehill State Park is not a place to dig history but is definitely a place to ...

But she and Jerry Cimino are not giving up their culture war “It’s important to educate ... not a museum with artifacts but a cradle of resistance and rebellion with ideas and tools for ...

many problems will arise in the matter of segregation and civil rights, as a result of judicial decisions. Having served as judge of the third judicial circuit of Alabama, I feel, my friends ...

I told him, If you kill me, you’ll die too’ - INTERVIEW: The 84-year-old soul stalwart has survived alcoholism, segregation, ...

(WBRC) - An effort to preserve civil rights heritage sites and share stories of the past with communities in order to keep the history alive. The Alabama African American ... they call it the War Room ...