The 84-year-old soul stalwart has survived alcoholism, segregation, a dramatic mid-career trough, and a relationship in which she accuses a man of once holding a gun to her head. Ahead of a new ...

The American singer, a vivacious and very much active octogenarian, is one of the stars of the British-made I’ll Take You There: Discovering the Sound of Alabama, and the evening’s guest of ...

Is Birmingham’s Civil Rights History on the DOGE chopping block? The sell off of federal buildings and historic monuments ...

Sixty years ago this month, civil rights activists walked across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama before being violently attacked by law enforcement. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

I promised our city that in 24 hours, I’d remove the monument that had haunted us for generations.  I had less ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Nahid Mir, 39, from Birmingham, was a size six before falling pregnant with her twins - but gained a considerable amount of ...

An Alabama mother was shocked after giving birth ... into the world on Tuesday in Birmingham. 'The doctor pulls her out of me and all the nurses are like, "Oh god! Wow!"' Mann told TODAY.

Authorities identified a man and a woman shot to death in Birmingham Thursday night and ... of this tragic case,’’ Wade said. Ex-Alabama police officer pleads guilty to sexual assault of ...