: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 ...

Hall is now calling on city leaders to address what he describes as longstanding problems within the jail, urging officials ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A convicted felon was sentenced to five years in prison for a gun crime, according to U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona on Monday. Herman Steen, 35, was sentenced to 60 months ...

(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 ...

What does the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” reveal about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., known as an agent of social change, a dreamer and peacemaker? That he was at times angry and frustrated, yet ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...