As part of Juneteenth celebrations this week, Major League Baseball is honoring the Negro Leagues — African American professional baseball teams of the 1920s to 1940s — with several games at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, former home of the Black Barons.
The U.S. Olympic Team trials for slalom kayak and canoe were held at Montgomery Whitewater, a new artificial watersports complex. The city hopes to draw more tourism, while the sport seeks new fans.
Johnny Mims and his school band were wrapping up their last song when Birmingham police insisted the performance stop immediately. The confrontation ended with Mims tased in front of his students.
Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. On Saturday, as civil rights leaders and their allies mark 60 years since the original March on Washington, they hope to recapture the spark that forever changed America.
The Birmingham movement in 1963 was a turning point when children joined the struggle for equal rights. The brutal response from white segregationists galvanized support for the Civil Rights Act.
The brunt of the twister's damage was sustained in the city of Fultondale, just north of Birmingham. The Jefferson County coroner confirmed one dead, whom officials said was a high school student.
Southern rock 'n' roll band Lee Bains III and The Glory Fires performs in Macon tonight as part of its Georgia tour. GPB intern Sophie Peel spoke with...
U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of sexual misconduct by five women. Many high ranking Republicans have called on him to drop out of the...
Republicans have long dominated Southern politics. But this year, progressive candidates in the South begin to win state and local races. Birmingham,...
