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The Impact of Acclaimed Photographer Dawoud Bey and The Birmingham Project

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By Ryan Michaels For The Birmingham Times Acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey presents “The Birmingham Project” an exhibition of portraits at the Birmingham Museum of Art through...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Visits Her Mother’s Alma Mater in Alabama

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By Cody D. Short | cshort@al.com U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson traveled to Alabama last week to visit several historical markers, including Tuskegee University,...

“Why has it taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for...

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-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, birminghamtimes.com, Sept. 16.

“The major trauma for me was the beating he took here...

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-Patricia Shuttlesworth Massengill, 80, daughter of the legendary Birmingham Civil Rights leader Fred L. Shuttlesworth at Phillips Academy, which renamed its auditorium in honor...

At 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson...

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By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson For The Birmingham Times Engaging, inspiring and compelling, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, making her first visit to Alabama, on Friday...

President Kennedy and the Aftermath of the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing

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By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times President John F. Kennedy expressed "outrage" and "grief" one day after Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed in 1963 killing...

Prepared Excerpts by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at Birmingham’s 16th Street...

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By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, making her first visit to Alabama, delivered a special memorial service address in...

Carol McKinstry, Birmingham Church Bombing Survivor, on the ‘Hurt And Grief’

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By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times Carol Maull McKinstry, 15 years old in 1963, had been a member of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church since the...

Inside Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963

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By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times A phone rings inside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull lifts up the receiver. The...

Often Lost to History, Virgil Ware, 14, Was Murdered Same Day...

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By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing was not the only tragedy in Birmingham on Sept. 15, 1963. Four girls --...