:43 IT WAS THE COURSE CORRECT FOR AMERICA :46 THE LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL. IT IS A RESPONSE TO ALL OF HIS CRITICS AROUND THE COUNTRY WRITTEN APRIL 1963 BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 19:10 I WAS IN ...

(RNS) — It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy ...

Sixty years ago, a Baptist minister sat in a southern jail cell and penned the most important written statement of the civil rights movement. Months before the March on Washington, where he delivered ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written 61 years ago this month, will be read aloud this week at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The reading will be ...

The prison bench where Martin Luther King Jr. penned one of his best-known letters will be displayed at the Museum of the American Revolution later this year. The metal seat from which the civil ...

December saw a man jailed for murdering his neighbour and a showoff speeding driver sent down for killing a pedestrian ...

Eric Hall, a well-known Birmingham activist and co-founder of the city’s Black Lives Matter chapter, was arrested Tuesday ...

The former CFO of a health-focused Birmingham nonprofit is appealing her recent prison sentence. Terri McGuire Mollica, the former chief financial officer of Birmingham Health Care Inc., is appealing ...

A 22-year-old man has been convicted in the 2022 fatal shooting of a Birmingham teen. A Jefferson County jury on Wednesday found Martez Willearl Jefferson guilty of two counts of capital murder in the ...

ENSLEY, Ala. (WIAT) — Through a friendship that would seem unlikely to some, three men have built a bond on acceptance and redemption. Now, they’re sharing their powerful story in the hopes of helping ...

A local novelist will soon release a book detailing the time she ran a book club at a women’s prison in central Alabama. “Bookin’ in the Big House: What I ...