King led several nonviolent campaigns in Birmingham, known at the time as "the most segregated city in America." ...

The Birmingham Police Department announced a series of arrests Thursday from January and February 2025.The department said ...

A judge sentenced Cogger to 18 years and six months in prison and Mohamed to 20 years and eight months in prison at ...

Damien McDaniel, charged in two Birmingham mass shootings, asked to be moved from state prison back to the Jefferson County ...

Two people are dead following a shooting in Birmingham's Inglenook neighborhood Thursday night. It happened at 4922 41st ...

Two people were arrested and a large amount of narcotics was seized after an operation conducted by the Jefferson County ...

In the solace of a Birmingham jail in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned what many consider “one of the greatest documents ever written by an American.” King came across an article ...

He was arrested and taken to the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was placed in solitary confinement. The freedom movement was at an early stage in Birmingham, and with King in jail, it ...

Officials say the Birmingham Police Department, Real Time Crime Center and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office worked together ...

The Birmingham Police Department's Crime Reduction Team (CRT) has apprehended a suspect in connection with a double homicide ...

The metal seat from which the civil rights leader wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" will be included in the museum's upcoming exhibit on the Declaration of Independence, the museum said Monday.

That sentiment from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is as pertinent today as it was when he penned it 61 years ago. While many advances toward racial equity ...