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Young Residents of Birmingham Housing in Selma for ‘Bloody Sunday’ Commemoration

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The Birmingham Times Nearly two dozen young people from the Housing Authority of Birmingham District (HABD) were in Selma to commemorate the 58th anniversary of...

Selma AL Begins Digging Out From Devastating Storm

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Mike Cason | mcason@al.com Rachel Daniel was at work at the Goodwill Store on Furniss Avenue when a storm that ravaged Selma and the surrounding...

Historic Church in Selma on Endangered Places List

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By Jay Reeves Associated Press Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the...

Vice President Kamala Harris Marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ Anniversary in Selma

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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for...

Selma Bridge Crossing Different This Year; Goals The Same

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Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Activists who gathered virtually and in person to commemorate a pivotal day in the civil rights struggle that became...

Congressional leaders in Birmingham for Civil Rights Pilgrimage

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By Ameera Steward The Birmingham Times Many of Alabama’s political leaders, locally and nationally, gathered Friday in Birmingham for the 26th annual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage....

Birmingham Library closes out Black History Month with 19 programs through...

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www.bplonline.org The Birmingham Public Library will host a series of events over the next week at 14 different locations to culminate its 2019 celebration of...

Selma re-enacts march that sparked “Bloody Sunday”

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Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Throngs of people converged in the city of Selma, Alabama, for the annual re-enactment of a key event in...

Congressional delegation tours Birmingham during Civil Rights Pilgrimage

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By Ariel Worthy The Birmingham Times A bipartisan delegation of Congressional members - blacks and whites; Democrats and Republicans; men and women -- on Friday  toured...

Black marchers, white re-enactors find common foe in Selma

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By Kim Chandler and Jay Reeves Associated Press SELMA, Ala. — The mayor of Selma refused to back down last week in a fight that has...