In spring 1963, African American civil rights activists in Alabama started the Birmingham campaign, a series of sit-ins, boycotts and marches against segregation laws. The peaceful demonstrations were met with violence, teargas and police dogs. The...
Anthony Ray Hinton was going out of his mind on Alabama’s death row as he repeatedly churned over the iniquities of the shambolic trial that put him there. So he started a book club. The prison warden wasn’t keen but after Hinton told him that it wa...
A charter bus taking high school students home from a trip to Disney World plunged off a bridge and into a ravine in Alabama early on Tuesday, killing the driver and injuring several passengers. Video footage showed the vehicle lying on its side on...
A charter bus plunged off a bridge and into a ravine as Texas students returned from a trip to Disney World A charter bus taking high school students home from a trip to Disney World plunged off a bridge and into a ravine in Alabama early o...