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.

Honoring Bloody Sunday's 60th anniversary, the Brown Chapel AME Church and Action Fund will host a celebration and call to action in Selma.

There’s the black Baptist church and the white Baptist church, the black cemetery and, across town, the white one. There are similar stories in many small Southern cities.

Standing in Tabernacle Baptist Church where he was trained in non-violent protest tactics 60 years earlier, he was brought to tears thinking about what the people of his city achieved.

The list of 35 grantees includes 16th Street Baptist Church Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama, where crucial civil rights organizing meetings were held during Jim Crow segregation in the 1960s and where ...