On a cold December morning in 1931, a short, elderly Black woman set out on a 24km (15-mile) walk from her homestead in Alabama ... in a friendly world. Many white Americans reacted with indignant ...

Rep. Terri Sewell today described her proposed holiday as counter measure to what she called an attack on diversity and Black history by President Donald Trump’s administration.

On Feb. 3, 1956, Autherine Lucy made history by attending her first class at the University of Alabama, almost four years after she began to seek admission. She was the first Black student to ...

Archie Wade, a man sometimes called the University of Alabama's Jackie Robinson, integrating the faculty, and assisting legendary head football coach Paul W. "Bear" Bryant in recruiting Black ...

Alabama Barker/Instagram In subsequent photos, Alabama gives the camera her best neutral look in a black-and-white close-up shot, dances in the dark while surrounded by palm trees, looks over her ...

In one instance, the suit asserts that one brother's sophomore year, a teacher likened a Black classmate to a picture of a ...

The White House ordered the freeze on Monday evening ... in providing police in one Connecticut city details on a...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

SouthTalks is a series of events exploring the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies. All events are free to the ...

A mom and daughter, a cat-loving stage prop designer and a “Forest”-dwelling contractor are among the few who’ve gotten back to see what’s left of their homes. Each fled in a chaotic scramble last ...

President Trump landed in Los Angeles on Friday to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county.