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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...

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...

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

By Monique Jones The Birmingham Times The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church are among the 39 historical and preservation projects in...

By Jeff Martin Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - A company that sought to redevelop a historic hotel overlooking the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama -...