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August 13, 2023
The video from Montgomery struck a chord because it didn’t end in the worst of outcomes for Black Americans.
Michelle Browder, theGrio.com
November 4, 2022
The Mothers of Gynecology Health and Wellness Clinic will provide training to doulas and midwives as well as women's healthcare.
October 7, 2022
Annette Gordon-Reed, who integrated Texas' Conroe ISD in 1964, visited and dedicated a school named in her honor in the…
April 20, 2022
Alabama State University removed the name of a KKK member from a dorm and renamed it for a leader in…
April 12, 2022
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo's interactive art installation will be on display at the Montgomery, Alabama center through July 5.
April 6, 2022
Bridge signage wouldn't change, but the words “foot soldier” would get separate marking, including silhouette art of the historic protesters.
February 1, 2022
Alabama State University has been awarded $300,000 to support improved agricultural studies at the Montgomery HBCU.
Byron Allen thegrio.com
December 16, 2021
Acquisition of the outlet will bring Allen Media Broadcasting’s holding to 36 television stations in 21 U.S. markets.
November 28, 2021
Alabama’s capital city faces penalty for renaming Jeff Davis Avenue after Fred D. Gray, a lawyer known for his work…
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin
October 26, 2021
A legal team representing Colvin says it plans to file paperwork to have the now-82-year-old woman's arrest from 1955 expunged.
October 2, 2021
The expanded Legacy Museum opened Friday and takes visitors on a journey from the slave trade to modern criminal justice…
Rosa Parks, theGrio.com
September 17, 2021
Ohio's Joyce Beatty and two of her colleagues in Congress want to make Dec. 1, the day Parks' arrest sparked…
Lucille Times theGRIO.com
August 20, 2021
Civil rights activist Lucille Times, who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, passed away Monday evening at the age of 100.
May 15, 2021
The Alabama Civil Rights Podcast will be available through the state's tourism department site and other sites where podcasts are…
Rosa Parks thegrio.com
December 1, 2020
Rosa Parks is being honored on the 65th anniversary of her refusal to give up her seat to a white…
October 3, 2020
Police in Alabama allowed their dog to maul the body of a 51-year-old Black man at his mother's house after…
July 20, 2020
David A. Love says honoring the legacy of John Lewis must also include renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama…
October 9, 2019
Steven Reed is the city's first Black mayor in its 200-year history more than six decades after it became the…
Lynching Memorial
April 25, 2018
The nation’s first museum/memorial dedicated to the victims of lynchings is set to open in Montgomery, Ala. On Thursday and it offers…
March 3, 2016
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities filed a murder charge against 23-year-old Officer Aaron Smith and began the process of firing…