As the region grapples with poor sanitation, groups like the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Program are taking it upon ...

The state's progress is not just about connectivity—it’s about economic growth, education, and healthcare access for ...

“I just like to sing my soul,” Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton, is heard to say in a new documentary ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium hosted a two-day event to teach and empower communities ...

No one until now has publicly shared the specifics of the wave that happened before 18-year-old Rogers Hamilton was murdered in rural Alabama in 1957.

Vaccination rates for Alabama’s youngest residents have fallen dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic. And that’s especially true when it comes to the vaccine for polio. The state’s infants and ...

Better Than Average tutoring is looking to help children in the River Region keep up with their reading.

Thomasville, which has fewer than 4,000 residents, 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 ...

Journal The inaugural Historical Marion 2 Selma Bicycle Ride will commemorate the 60th anniversary of one of the most important and notorious moments in Civil Rights history. The cycling event, set ...

White planters moving into Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—the “Cotton ... In the decades before the Civil War, white ...