For the past seven years, the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium has traveled around Alabama, sharing lesser-known stories of the civil rights movement.

President Ronald Reagan, seated, signs the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, as Coretta Scott King, center left, watches on Nov. 2, 1983, in Washington.

Martin Luther King Jr. organized a second march of about 2,500 on March 9, but the route was curtailed at the bridge as King sought to secure federal approval.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before crowd of 25,000 in ...

From pig ears to "white sauce" to the legendary ribs that fed the civil rights movement, Alabama has a diverse and tangy ...

So now we live in a time when Americans in power ignore the Constitution and curtail freedom of speech, freedom of assembly ...

From pig ears to "white sauce" to the legendary ribs that fed the civil rights movement, Alabama has a diverse and tangy culinary history. Here are the best places to get a taste.

Jaron Chambers is thrilled to see his three young daughters learn about the civil rights movement — including Dr. Martin ...

In 1963, the great American civil rights activist and political philosopher, Martin Luther King Jr., wrote the famous 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' an open letter he penned from his Alabama prison ...

North Omaha Sunday to go on a special tour centered around the Civil Rights Movement. "I'm really excited to go to Memphis, Atlanta and Tulsa because those are places of Martin Luther King. And ...

The Alabama city that produced five Hall of Famers celebrates its baseball heritage with new statues. The moment was made ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...