Sixty years after the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, Sarah Collins Rudolph said she still feels the scars. Rudolph, who was 12 at the time, was one of the 22 people ...

Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember ...

Bishop Jonathan Holston, who took office on Sept. 1 as bishop over all United Methodist churches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, will oversee half as many churches as his predecessors. More than ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WCSC) - Four Black children were killed and more than a dozen were hurt in a bombing at a Birmingham, Alabama, church during the Civil Rights movement. The bomb exploded in a back ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Hundreds of people black and white, many holding hands, filled an Alabama church that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago Sunday to mark the anniversary of the blast that ...

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September 15, 1963 – A bomb blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four African-American girls during church services. At least 14 others are injured in the ...

One local church in east Alabama decided to give away food boxes to feed families for a week instead of one day.

Federal authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with a series of church fires in rural Alabama. A third suspect is still being sought. At least 10 churches, with both black and white ...

PLACE. AND TODAY THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REFLECTED ON THE LIVES LOST DURING THAT BOMBING AT THE BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE. KRISTEN CLARKE TALKED ABOUT THE FOUR ...