Thursday, the community celebrated 33 years of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and honored former US Attorney General ...

Vince Staples joked that Black folks simply look “better” during revolutions, and the Civil Rights Movement and Black Panther ...

A few weeks ago in Minneapolis, the school year started with another shooting and innocent lives were taken before they could begin to experience all that life might have brought them. The shooting ...

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, 43, for years a top deputy to Martin Luther King, is an old hand at organizing nonviolent demonstrations. But he isn’t quite so skilled at dispersing them—at least when ...

Opelika, Ala.: The man who would be king, President Trump, was inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day. That’s a grotesque irony. The gulf between the true King and the want-to-be king proves as vast as ...

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was raised in the crucible of segregated Birmingham, but he was forged by its attempt to kill him. When the KKK planted a bomb underneath his bed and he emerged unharmed, he ...

WALNUT HILLS, Ohio (WKRC) - Youth football teams from all over Cincinnati came together for a tournament today to celebrate peace. The annual "Fred Shuttlesworth SCLC Chapter Peace Bowl Classic" was ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Standing, from left, are Jarred Bester, Rev. Shuttlesworth’s great-great grandson; Juantez ...

A week ago, I traveled with a group from Givens Estates on a civil rights tour. We started in Birmingham with stops at Bethel Baptist (Fred Shuttlesworth’s congregation back in the 1950s, where he was ...

In 1963, Birmingham was the epicenter of racial injustice—until a movement of pastors, churches, and children disrupted the hate. Journalist Paul Kix says it’s a story he was destined to tell. This ...

Specials chronicling gospel music and Black scientists’ contributions to the space race are among the programs you can watch during Black History Month. If it’s February that means TV networks and ...