As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...

Amber Valley looks like any number of small, rural communities, but a couple dilapidated log cabins hint at what was once the ...

White planters moving into Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—the “Cotton Kingdom”—were searching for fertile soils. They hired geologists, who scoured the rivers and plantations for the ...

sits in the middle of Alabama’s Black Belt, so named for its rich, black soil. The rural, southern swath of Alabama is steeped in history and culture, and home to the most economically ...

So, on that pretty fall day, she jumped in the passenger seat to cruise the blacktops of this part of Alabama’s Black Belt. She and ... authorities and to history. He has been the subject ...

THOMASVILLE, Ala. — It was a moonshot effort for a small Southern town: Open a brand-new rural hospital in the poorest region of one of the poorest states in the nation. Thomasville, which has ...

The cycling event begins in Marion and rolls 31 miles through Perry and Dallas counties in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt. The inaugural Historical Marion 2 Selma Bicycle Ride will commemorate ...

History is our starting point.” The Marion 2 Selma Bicycle Ride – co-sponsored by the Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association, Blackbelt Benefit Group, the Conservation Fund, Main Street Marion, ...

(WBRC) - An effort to preserve civil rights heritage sites and share stories of the past with communities in order to keep the history alive. The Alabama African American ... in Montgomery, in the ...

If you're a cycling fan who lives in West Alabama, there's a 31-mile ride happening Feb. 20 you might find appealing. It's the first ever Historical Marion 2 Selma Bicycle ride, honoring the 60th ...

sits in the middle of Alabama’s Black Belt, so named for its rich, black soil. The rural, southern swath of Alabama is steeped in history and culture, and home to the most economically ...