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September 15, 2023
The deadly bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept. 15, 1963 was a wakeup call…
December 24, 2022
An underground fire has been raging at an environmental landfill near Birmingham for almost a month, covering Alabama's largest metro…
September 15, 2022
Alabama sidesteps compensation for Sarah Collins Rudolph, a survivor of the 1963 KKK Birmingham church bombing.
May 20, 2022
The NAACP wants to stop future acts of anti-Black domestic terrorism using law enforcement, business regulation and gun control.
Barack Obama thegrio,com
May 19, 2022
The Roeper School released a statement to Fox 2 on Tuesday saying it was reviewing the circumstances of the incident.
April 22, 2022
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin used April 20, or 4/20, to announce pardons for people convicted of marijuana possession.
Navari Jones thegrio.com
March 1, 2022
Navari Deon Jones was shot at least once before crashing the vehicle he was driving and dying near police headquarters…
January 4, 2022
Maxine McNair, 93, was the mother of Carol Denise McNair, who, at 11, was the youngest of the four girls…
theGRIO.com
August 25, 2021
Magic City Poetry Festival founder, 31-year-old Ashley M. Jones, has been named the first Black poet laureate for Alabama.
July 10, 2021
A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother’s lifelong dream of wearing a wedding dress was fulfilled, 70 years after her marriage.
Dea-John Reid thegrio.com
June 5, 2021
Police say 14-year-old Dea-John Reid was subjected to racist language prior to the fatal incident in Birmingham, England.
May 15, 2021
The Alabama Civil Rights Podcast will be available through the state's tourism department site and other sites where podcasts are…
May 14, 2021
Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him and took him to jail for participating in landmark civil…
theGRIO.com
May 13, 2021
Former seamstress and great-grandmother Vivian Cunningham is making headlines for graduating from an Alabama university at the age of 78.
President Biden Announces Regulation Of "Ghost Guns," Updates Background Checks
April 9, 2021
Over the past week, 17 people have been shot and killed in Birmingham, Alabama leaving seven dead, a few of…
Police Car theGrio.com
April 6, 2021
Radio host Rickey Smiley is offering a reward in the shooting death of Areyelle Yarborough who was killed randomly on…
Randall Woodfin thegrio.com
January 5, 2021
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin was hospitalized on Monday night days after testing positive for coronavirus and experiencing symptons.
Ryan Jamaal Swain theGrio.com
July 30, 2020
Raven Lynette Swain was found in the driver’s seat of a car yesterday and was pronounced dead on the scene.…
June 8, 2020
A GoFundMe for a Birmingham business is stopped after the business owner and Candace Owens make comments about George Floyd.
Birmingham Mayor
December 17, 2019
Birmingham mayor Randall Woodfin is endorsing Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.