The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, dedicated its National Monument to Freedom on June 19, 2024, in the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. The ...

The sponsor of Alabama’s law forbidding local governments from removing or renaming historical monuments is making another attempt to increase fines for cities and counties that do so. Sen. Gerald ...

Someone has just called two of Alabama’s most iconic artworks “ugly.” As you may have guessed, I have something to say about that. Alabama has its share of quirky outdoor art installations, which I ...

The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, first filed in 2015, has long been criticized as a bill created to protect monuments that honor the Confederacy. SB51, a bill that proposed an increase to the ...

Rolando Herts will oversee the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and the Freedom Riders National Monument. The National Park Service selected a new superintendent for Alabama’s Birmingham ...

Russell Cave National Monument is located in northeastern Alabama near the Tennessee border. Russell Cave is an archaeological site with one of the most complete records of prehistoric peoples in the ...

Though some Confederate monuments are coming down across America, a new one was unveiled in Alabama on Sunday, NBC News reported. Hundreds of people attended the unveiling of the small monument for ...

A bill to potentially increase the financial penalties that local governments would face for violating a 2017 law that blocks moving or changing historical monuments, buildings, and streets was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a ...

The city of Florence has reached a tentative agreement to settle a free speech lawsuit brought by an organization that staged dozens of protests against a Confederate monument in the north Alabama ...

The Washington Post reported on Aug. 15, Aug. 23 and Aug. 24 that Coral Ridge Ministries, a Florida evangelical Christian group, used proceeds from the sale of videotapes to help pay the legal ...