Less than one block separates the local YMCA from the Schomburg Center in Harlem. This short path inspired a long journey of civil rights activism for Doris A. Derby, whose documentary photography now...
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...
President Barack Obama visited Alabama on Saturday for the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura...
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”...
“O courage, my soul, and let us journey on” were the lyrics sung by the Holt High School Choir during Saturday’s first annual Holt Black History Celebration, a ceremony meant to honor the growth...
Discussing the South’s history can be tricky, especially while in the South, but Pulitzer Prize winner Douglas Blackmon spoke to a full room Thursday night in Gorgas 205 about the history of the post-civil...
Douglas Blackmon, The Wall Street Journal’s former bureau chief in Atlanta, will discuss his book, “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,”...
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...
