Recent federal court rulings in Arkansas and Iowa have blocked similar book restrictions, potentially setting precedent for ...

African American church leaders are speaking out over budget cuts being proposed by the Trump White House. The Smithsonian ...

The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...

This may explain why Alabama struggles to honor victims of slavery. There’s no question we should. Almost half the state was enslaved in 1860. Each one of those men and women lived with the ...

Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in Alabama and their advocates are pushing for reforms in how the state ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

I’m sure he was strolling around assuming that he was simply a post-1900 [arrival] and he finds out that he has a great-grandfather owned slaves in Mobile, Alabama and fought for the Confederacy.

Turner said he got the idea from the Rev. Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, whose church also ...

At the Alabama Public Library Service’s executive ... Book Awards finalist about a teenager being sold into sexual slavery in India. In response to an interview request, Watson referred The ...