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After damage to the roof of the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma during a tornado in January 2023, the church needed funding to repair the lead-coated copper dome roof. Tabernacle ...
SUMMERS: Juanda, your church has been a gathering place for Black people in Selma for decades and decades, long before John Lewis came there in '65. Tell us a story we might not have heard before.
Tabernacle Baptist Church is the only church in Alabama to be included in the grant. The church was founded in 1884 less than 20 years after the abolition of slavery, although the current ...
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, a Selma, Alabama native, said that Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is significant to her, as it was her home church growing up, where she memorized her first speech as a Girl Scout.
In a bold and controversial move, New Era Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, has sparked outrage with a provocative election sign targeting Black voters.The sign reads, “Attention to all ...
Honoring Bloody Sunday's 60th anniversary, the Brown Chapel AME Church and Action Fund will host a celebration and call to action in Selma.
Alabama on Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous attacks during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing of a church that killed four Black girls in 1963.
First African Baptist Church in will host a special service June 8 to commemorate the 61st anniversary of Bloody Tuesday, a key event in Tuscaloosa's civil rights history. The service will begin ...
Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Sarah Collins Rudolph and her husband, George Rudolph, talk in their home on Nov. 16, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala ...
From left; U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President Derick Johnson participate in a church service at the Tabernacle Baptist Church during the 60th anniversary of the march ...
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by the Klu Klux Klan 60 years ago today. The September 15, 1963 blast killed four little Black girls: Denise McNair, Cynthia ...
Debris is strewn from a bomb that exploded near a basement room of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. on September 15, 1963, killing four Black girls. AP Photo, FILE ...