I did not have the opportunity to see President Obama speak last Saturday in Selma on the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” Yet the glorious power of YouTube and a filmy Mac screen allowed me to watch...

The University of Alabama’s School of Social work invites the campus and community to attend a colloquium on Friday, Feb. 20, to discuss Tuscaloosa’s African-American civil rights heritage. Every...

Jesse Jackson tells a story about former governor George Wallace that has always moved and appalled me at the same time. In the final months of Wallace’s life, Jackson came to Montgomery to see him....

Monday was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day for the federal and state governments in America. Many will spend the day focusing on his “I Have a Dream” speech, especially his hope that his children would...

Students creating their own major is relatively common, but there is a growing trend of teachers creating their 
own classes. Anil Mujumdar, a practicing lawyer in Birmingham and adjunct professor in...

“In this very room, there’s quite enough love for all of us,” the Stillman College Singers crooned as they closed the second annual “A Day Without Civil Rights is Like a Day Without Sunshine”...

The history of Alabama is riddled with stains of social injustice that serve today as an embarrassment. We look back and wonder what seemingly reasonable people were thinking when they made the decisions...