ATHENS, Ala. (WAFF) - The Lincoln-Bridgeforth Park Committee hosted its Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church in Athens on Monday to honor the legacy of ...

To note Black History month, here’s a moment in history that unfolded at Lincoln’s Pershing Auditorium — one not memorialized in the giant mural now in storage awaiting restoration and reinstallation ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Some say President-elect Barack Obama's election has the same historical significance as the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his ...

The Rev. Abraham Woods Jr., 80, a civil rights leader in Birmingham, Ala., who stood behind the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, died of ...

I want to take a moment to reflect on the importance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which we celebrate Monday on what would have been Dr. King’s 95th birthday. Dr. King was a civil rights hero who ...

Two arrests later and the Colbert County Sheriff’s Office is now officially a working extension of ICE. “So many of them have left the area,” Executive Vice President of the Alabama Home Builders ...