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Confederate
November 29, 2019
The Alabama Supreme Court upheld a state law barring cities like Birmingham from moving or changing Confederate monuments.
Police Car thegrio.com
July 30, 2019
As a suspect in the shooting of a Birmingham toddler sits in police custody, the girl is struggling to recover…
MLK Assassination thegrio.com
April 27, 2019
"Green Book" A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Ala. being renovated under a Civil Rights monument plan by former President Barack Obama…
Confederate
January 15, 2019
Despite the controversy surrounding erection of a barrier around a confederate monument in Birmingham, Ala., it is still free speech…
Alex Vildibill
March 27, 2018
AI.com reports that Police Officer Alex Vildibill invited himself to Ramsay High School’s cookout, a predominantly Black school because he wanted them to…
October 16, 2017
The night Randall Woodfin won the hotly contested race for mayor of Birmingham, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with dozens of his
October 4, 2017
Woodfin ran against incumbent Birmingham Mayor William Bell, who had been at City Hall for seven years and who was in…
May 9, 2017
Randall Woodfin says it’s his turn now. The 35-year-old is the newest rising political voice in Birmingham, Alabama, a city
October 25, 2016
Judy Hand-Truit was a young white teen in Birmingham, Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the…
August 4, 2016
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The lone surviving Ku Klux Klansman imprisoned for killing four black girls in a church bombing…
June 30, 2016
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan…
February 29, 2016
Members of the congregation at the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Alabama couldn't get inside the church Sunday. So they…
February 25, 2016
Keisha Rembert's 7-year-old son Rashaad Hunter is an honor roll student and doesn't get into trouble. Earlier this year, however,…
February 24, 2016
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis jury has awarded $72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who…
February 9, 2016
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Growing up in the 1950s, William Bell had to enter Birmingham's segregated Lyric Theatre though a…
November 11, 2015
An 8-year-old Alabama boy has been charged with murder after he allegedly beat a 1-year-old girl to death when she…
September 23, 2015
Commissioner Sandra Little Brown thinks it's time a slave mural placed in a Birmingham courthouse eighty years ago comes down.
September 15, 2013
ESSAY - The anniversary of the brutal murder of four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama…
September 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The names Virgil Ware and Johnny Robinson may not be familiar to many, but they played an…