Birmingham, Alabama Archives - Andscape

Sports

Major League Baseball descends on Birmingham and Rickwood Field

MLB and its week of events brings attention to the Southern city, but isn’t about to change the generational trauma of segregation

By Clinton Yates

Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls

By The Associated Press

Culture

King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ explains the rage over the NFL anthem protests and the persistence of racial injustice

Re-reading the famous letter today shows how much still needs to change

By Michael A. Fletcher

HBCU

Alabama State and Alabama A&M band directors say Magic City Classic is electric all weekend long

Bands are ready to bring the magic to Alabama

By Maya A. Jones

Culture

President Obama creates national monuments to civil rights and Reconstruction

Sites of Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing and Freedom Riders attack get federal recognition

By Rhiannon Walker