Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and one of three men convicted of murdering four Black…

I imagine I am a street sweeper.

Compared to most cities its size, Birmingham, Ala., didn’t really have a police brutality problem. While…

Video footage of a police officer slamming a black woman to the ground over her failure to wear a face mask in a…

The Alabama state Senate postponed a vote on a bill designed to preserve and protect the history and culture of…

The mayor of the city with one of the highest percentages of black residents in America spoke out on Tuesday against…

In an exclusive conversation with The Root, the mayor of America’s third-blackest city announced his endorsement of…

In a world in which black youth like Tamir Rice have far too often fallen victim to gun violence, black parents are…

Investigators searching for Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney—the 3-year-old abducted from a birthday party more than a…

Police in Alabama say they’re now on the lookout for another “person of interest” in the race to find Kamille…

Worried family members were among dozens of people gathered Monday night in Birmingham, Ala., to pray for the safe…

The mayor of the third blackest city in America unveiled a plan that could fundamentally transform the future of the…

Seven months after protests shut down the Alabama mall where a police officer shot and killed EJ Bradford,…

Marshae Jones, the Alabama woman who was arrested and charged with manslaughter in the death of her fetus after she…

Lawyers for Marshae Jones, the Alabama woman charged with manslaughter after her unborn baby was shot and killed in…

Days after eight white women and 43 white men yelled “Roll Tide!” before voting to pass the nation’s harshest…

Despite what you may believe, trust me, you have never truly seen a black person let go.

How do you define the blackness of a city? For Black History Month, we challenged writers to explain why they think…

Angela Davis’ homecoming was perfect.

The man in charge of defending indigent citizens in the criminal justice system of one of America’s blackest cities…