22BLM mural being painted on 1st Avenue South in BirminghamThe words “Black Lives Matter’’ is being painted on the street on First Avenue South in Birmingham, between 16th and 17th streets South near Railroad Park.The project, mirrored after one in Washington, D.C., will require the road to be blocked off June 17-19, as organizers hope…
U.S.|Birmingham Mayor Orders Removal of Confederate Monument in Public ParkThe statue, at the center of a legal fight, was defaced and damaged during a protest on Sunday night.An unidentified man walks past a toppled statue of Charles Linn, a city founder who was in the Confederate Navy, in Birmingham, Ala., on Monday, following a night…
Workers on Monday night began the process of taking down the 115-year-old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument in Birmingham’s Linn Park - the focal point of protests that turned into unrest in the city Sunday night and early Monday.Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin vowed to work quickly to remove the Confederate monument demonstrators tried to tear…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…