civil rights

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Autherine Lucy Foster, the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, received an honorary doctorate…

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has rescinded its decision to honor political activist and scholar Angela Davis following unspecified…

The four girls killed in a church bombing in Birmingham in 1963 were remembered over the weekend during a memorial service on the attack’s 55th…

The state of Alabama has a rich and painful history when it comes to the civil rights movement. Researchers recently uncovered new evidence about a…

The state of Alabama is going under the microscope again in terms of civil rights policy.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's civil rights office…

Throughout the course of Alabama political history, there have been two pervasive and prevailing issues - race and religion. The race issue has remained…

A company that sought to redevelop a historic hotel overlooking the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma says that city leaders broke their contract for the…

Roy Moore is no longer serving as the Chief Justice of Alabama.On September 30, a majority of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary decided to suspend Moore…

A Madison police officer is returning to active duty today after being acquitted of civil rights charges earlier this year.Eric Parker is back on the…

2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a number of key moments in the fight for civil rights. Alabama Public Radio’s Stan Ingold recently began a trek to…