Anthony Mackie is directing a film about civil rights trailblazer Claudette Colvin.
An autopsy performed on Glenn Foster Jr., who was found dead in an Alabama jail earlier this month, suggests that the former professional football player may have been strangled or suffered some other trauma to his neck before he died, Ben Crump and his legal team said.
Claudette Colvin, 82, had been on probation since 1955 after she was arrested for refusing to sit on the back of a segregated bus in Alabama. An Alabama judge has finally expunged her arrest record.
Alabama A&M University recently received its largest individual donation from an anonymous alum.
Dr. Brytney Cobia's viral Facebook post brought attention to misconceptions about the vaccine that have proven deadly for people she's treated: They thought if they weren't "a certain skin color they wouldn't get as sick."
Afiya Hooker and Joanna Johnson recently opened Mobile’s first Black-owned community-focused mental health center.
A former astronaut was sentenced to four years in jail last week from a DUI incident that claimed the lives of two young Black girls in Alabama five years ago.
Medical and public health officials see the lingering fear of malicious government action in predominantly Black communities as a reason to move swiftly to address equity concerns.
An incident that occurred nearly three months ago goes viral.
Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer donated breathing monitors to hospitals in New York and Alabama.
Social entrepreneur Rodney Smith Jr. is providing Huntsville residents with free lawn mowing services and care packages amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Activists like Martin Luther King III want his death sentence commuted.
